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| Digital Daughters |
It’s 2015, and
our kids are 'gramming, texting, Snapchatting, tweeting and streaming.
The distracting
noise level on social channels is amplifying while the length of thoughtful prose
is diminishing.
Don’t despair…
Social media and its octopus-like tentacles that reach out
and poke our kids – cajoling them to “like,” “follow” and “post” – are
intimidating, and worrying, especially when new apps crop up like weeds. But when I looked to my Digital Daughter
Ambassadors (DDAs) – tweens, teens and young women from around the country – to
get insight into how they were managing with the proliferation of ways to communicate
(text, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Google+, Tumblr – and
face-to-face), I found a lot of wisdom.
My very unscientific questionnaire of “Growing Up Female and Social” is just an ear
to the ground. But I am already hearing
echoes, and they offer important insights on what a diverse group of girls, my
DDAs who hail from New York to Pennsylvania, Maryland to Minnesota, California to
London, England - really think about social media, how they use it, and why
they love it so much.
Here are some initial insights from the questionnaire, showing
our girls to be wise to both the downfalls and upshots of social media.
