Soziale Lebensgrundlagen von Jugendlichen

Die 14-Jährige Casey Schwartz:

Casey’s habits underscore a new reality for this networked generation: Social networks — and the gadgets they run on — aren’t a distraction from real life, but a crucial extension of it.

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Not having an iPhone can be social suicide, notes Casey. One of her friends found herself effectively exiled from their circle for six months because her parents dawdled in upgrading her to an iPhone. Without it, she had no access to the iMessage group chat, where it seemed all their shared plans were being made.

“She wasn’t in the group chat, so we stopped being friends with her,” Casey says. “Not because we didn’t like her, but we just weren’t in contact with her.”

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