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New videos DAILY: Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: Should kids be on social media The kneejerk reaction, for some parents, is to control what they do. But journalist Virginia Heffernan thinks that how children and teenagers use social media is how we all use social media we re just too proud to admit it. Those of us that use social media inevitably are painting an avatar of personality online, testing what works and what doesn t, and through finetuning our own selves in the process. It is absolutely true that you can fall victim to narcissism if you follow the like economy to its fullest, but a healthy attitude towards social media can lead to some oldfashioned selfexploration that many older folks may have forgotten about. Because young people perhaps more than that you have to try on a lot of metaphorical hats bef