Why youth (hearts) Social Networking Sites: The Role of New Worked Publics in Teenage Social Life" by Danah Boyd

This article really focuses on how popular and essential social network sites have become for teens. Teenagers blog, go on web sites, pretty much whatever is popular at that certain time. Some teens think only cool kids can use the internet to communicate, so they make their profile as cool and up to date as possible. Individuals can be very creative when it comes to designing their own pages. You can really tell a lot about that person from his/her page.