I think you're missing my point: what pressure of the environment ? Of course there's always pressure, particuarly amongst youngster who make peer pressure a fine art.... It's how you
react to that pressure that shows the kind of person you are.
Facebook is not a big nasty 'thing' which creates peer pressure... it's just an outlet for expression.... and said expression is customizable... Thinking that others form you or feeling that you need to create a persona to be liked by them, now that is naive in the extreme.
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Originally Posted by BigD  But you're missing the point: its the pressure of the environment to upload this stuff and people's often mistaken belief that is is necessary for them to be validated by doing this.
A teenager in Class 2, will have his page up for less than 24 hours before someone asks him why he does have photos of him at school on there, or allow access to his gang of chums ? The pressure is there to provide content, and once it is provided is often denigrated.
Online bullying is a wellrecognised phenomena. Imagine putting up photos of your family and being told by a guy from another class that you look like a bunch of in-bred ******* ?
You could claim we can all exercise free-will in what we expose, but this is not done in a vacuum, and to assume that is the simple reason for much of the profiles is naive in the extreme.
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