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Analysis Of Why Do Teens Seem Strange Online? By Danah Boyd

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Amber Collazo Question 1: In Danah Boyd’s article, “Why Do Teens Seem Strange Online?,” she explores how teenagers interact in the online world of social media. With the impact of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms, teens deal with the challenge of discovering themselves and others in an online setting. Drawing on sociological conceptual and theoretical arguments, Boyd offers insights into how young people navigate the online world. Boyd argues that teenagers have become very skilled at building their identities based on their social media appearances. Teenagers use social media to present a mature and different personality to multiple different audiences to try and discover their “true” personalities and to join …show more content…

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