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The Rub of Social Ubiquity

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Sometimes we just don’t want to post, share, update, comment, tweet, or chat. What we all need to understand though, is that Google, Facebook and Microsoft want to keep us in network, 24 seven 365. Sometimes we just want to “lay low&#. Sometimes we just want to pull back and do nothing. We just want to be.

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Social Media is the Back Channel for Teen Angst

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First I want to quote a paragraph from the abstract of a 2011 paper by danah boyd , a renowned expert on teen culture and social media at Microsoft Research. The impact that comments and tweets have on those involved or affected; as well as those that are indirectly involved, is more precarious than first thought.