I filled several books with my life during my teenage years. I seldom wrote about fights with friends or discontent with my parents. My diary was full of my latest love and how I don't think I could ever live without him. Two pages later I would be on to a new love followed by more heartbreak.
Teens today take to the internet to express their feelings and emotions. Facebook seems to be an open board to share every last detail in various acronyms and codes. How the world has changed. I could never have imagined telling the world about my angst over a boy. Yet many teens are insistant on spreading their drama far and wide. Skeletons in the closet? Never in 2011. There are no closets to hide your embarrassing secrets. Everything you say and do is recorded forever on the web.
They say employers now look at your Facebook, Twitter and any other social network before considering hiring you for a job. Background investigations now encompass far more than just an arrest history. Where will these kids be in ten years when their words come back to haunt them?
I participate in social networking and firmly believe it has a lot to offer, but I am cautious of what I say. I don't use social media as a platform to spread my business. It's there purely for entertainment for me.
It must be tough to be a teenager with no place to hide your problems because they will forever be written in air.
