... to connect with their peers with impressive immediacy, synchronicity, and ease of access would only further their social development, but this online connection is not how adolescents progress socially in such vital years. The truth is, over dependence on online relationships in the developmental stages of teenage years has caused some teens to have damaged or altered social abilities in the real ... can lead teens to retreat into themselves and shut out potentially valuable friendships in the real-world (Rideout, 2012). Not only can this dependence do this, but the friendships made onl...

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