Text messaging, social networking platforms, blogs, email, and instant messaging can help adolescents stay connected to each other and express who they are to the world. Today’s adolescents have such large social networks that it is not uncommon to have virtual friendships with peers they have never met face-to-face. This digital interaction may curtail nonverbal communication and cues that occur in a person that is important for developing social skills, but these interactions are still social and meaningful to the adolescents who participate in them. At the same time, technology and social media have also provided a new forum for harassment.
Change Ways to Interact
