Ellen NiemerUpdated Jul 30, 2015
The online world can be a complicated one, but that doesn't mean that your Twittering teen has to get lost in its murky depths. Honest, open communication is the key to setting social-media boundaries—as is stepping up your own social-media savvy. Use this guide to help your teen to reap social media's many benefits without experiencing a total-life takeover.
It’s unclear who first coined the term “social media.” Executives at AOL claim to have begun using it in the early 1990s. Today online social media communities span the globe—and today’s teenagers have become the most electronically connected generation of all time.
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