Teenagers and young people do have more political power in their own right than many may realise.

Thank you again for the National Youth Rights Association.

And I’m glad you chose to come to Lily’s blog.

The helicopter parents prob is a huge one; and I’m constantly trying to tamp down flames of sensationalism on the sexting front; but it really doesn’t help when corporate coffers are lined with ‘bottom feeders’ asking girls to post their butts online (Please help get the word out on the American Apparel girlcott petition that Rachel and I are BOTH supporting: http://bit.ly/cpNnkK )

Also, there ARE some alerts that adults AND teens should be advised of (like the nefarious netbots called ‘flirt bots’ to usurp your digital data as I wrote about yesterday in the ramp up to Valentine’s Day: http://j.mp/91nMiI but again, this is less of a ‘teen scene’ concern and more of a hacker/privacy issue one. (see PC Tools/PCAdvisory mag)

Overall, I think the bubble-wrapping dynamic is driven by media misinterpretation and ratings games (not to mention some techno tools that aren’t doing teens many favors by CREATING some panics, like the daily ‘grades’ updates plopped into a parents’ inbox leading to micromanagement of academic assignments when kids used to just get plain ol’ paper report cards sans updates of ‘what’s due’ every nanosecond!

I think digital nagging, tracking, social media status updating etc. is becoming an apocalyptic generational divide causing needless angst and furor.

If I were a teen I’d feel violated and stalked…Listen up, parents. Lilly’s prose should give you a bracer of a reality check. If not, why not?

Maggie Hamilton is one of the people who thinks that teenagers might have one website for their parents and another for their friends.

I think I remember either Rachel Simmons or Alyssa Quart discussing this make-up ad: “11:15 at the mall. 3:15 home to your mother”: the duplicity of it all.

And it is adults being duplicitious in the name of protection.

Yes, I see the hypocrisy in this.