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This is what it's like to grow up in the age of likes, lols and longing
- acconrad 10y agoThis is what it's like to grow up in a rich suburb of DC as a white girl in the age of...
- greenyoda 10y agoExcellent point. It's also about a popular, good-looking girl who's good at sports (so popular that she can effortlessly grab 1000 points on her new Snapchat account in one day) - the kind of kid who is probably at the top of the social hierarchy and not getting bullied by her peers. I'd also be surprised if boys are as obsessed with social media as girls are, since in the days before social media it was the girls who seemed to be much more concerned about social status in school (which popular classmate liked/ignored them, etc.). And it's probably no accident that the author chose to write her story about this particular kid, since a random kid wouldn't have had nearly as good a story line if you wanted to write an article about "how obsessed kids are with social media these days".