#54 American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers by Nancy Jo Sales Instagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. Vine. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women? This the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales’s riveting and explosive American Girls.
As the parent of two kids now in their early twenties, this book was horrifying. While I agree with some of her points, there were one or two that I most definitely did not. The author actually cited those sources that had conflicting viewpoints (which I had previously read). Frankly, I thought the other books were better researched on those particular points. Overall, I agree that social media has created some bad situations.
