How teens may adjust their identity when they go off to college—through social media
I conducted with 35 young people approaching or transitioning from high school to university, many youths said that they anticipate or experience new freedoms from parental rules associated with social media and view the transition as an opportunity to curate a new, more mature, self on social media.
A 21-year-old university student named Georgia said that she did an “overhaul” of her friend group from high school to university to better reflect who she was. She said that when she entered university her peer group changed a lot because the transition offered her a “clean slate,” where she didn’t know anyone and could post with fewer worries about what others may think.
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