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Dr Shock MD PhD
Adolescents are the most truthful about school and their life on blogs, whereas they are the least truthful about intimate topics such as family life and partnership. Adolescents present their personal information on blogs very truthfully. A girls of fourteen is really a girl of fourteen.
During adolescence forming an identity is a key developmental task in this period. Identity in the sense of a coherent sense of the self. This developmental phase is crucial to questions such as who am i and it’s the phase in which adolescents experiment with different social roles. A blog is an extraordinary place to experiment with identity and social roles and to experiment with relationships online.
Fifty percent of adolescents show their photograph on their blogs11; 54% present personal data, such as age, name, or domicile; and 61% present contact information, such as e-mail address, instant messaging username, and phone number.
From the popular press it’s usually reported that adolescents do not use their true identity online. In a recent published research the authors approached 120 adolescents with blogs, adolescents between 13 and 17 years old with at least 3 months of active blogging …