Alfred A. After talking to girls between the ages of 13 and 19 in 10 states, she believes we should be very worried indeed. For most of them, social media is a necessary evil. Anecdotes like this make a persuasive case that social media has ratcheted up the pressure girls have long faced to appear both desirable and chaste. These are indeed hard questions, but Sales provides few satisfying answers. The question of whether she can make that choice freely in a society that vigorously polices her appearance and sexual expression is a valid one. While new platforms have opened up new avenues for harassment, they have also enabled new forms of activism, and young people have often been the first to adopt them.

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Once upon a time, only the wealthy and privileged could afford to have their portraits painted by a small, select circle of artists. With the advent of photography, parents of all backgrounds could have pictures of their children, which were coveted as documents of their development and a way to show off their innocent beauty and charm to family and friends. Today, with smartphones and social media, we all have in our hands the means to broadcast our pride and joy to the world. Ninety-two percent of American children have an online presence before the age of 2. Parents post nearly 1, images of their children online before their fifth birthday. And as we have seen in the recent abduction and murder of year-old Nicole Lovell of Blacksburg, Va. Lovell reportedly texted with one of her alleged killers, year-old David Eisenhauer, a Virginia Tech student, on Kik Messenger, an app known among kids as a place for the exchange of sexts and nude selfies.
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