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Sunday Firesides: Social Media Is Extending Everyone’s Adolescence

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Kate McKay
Dec 25, 2024
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People almost universally recall their adolescence, at least the part encapsulated by the middle school years, as their least favorite phase of life.

It’s a time in which you keenly feel the eyes of your peers upon you. You wonder whether you’re cool. And you desperately, desperately want to be cool. You want to be popular. You want to be liked. All your…

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