... both staggering and continuing as we introduce more and more social media sites into daily lives. There seem to be two prevailing theories on how this trend may be affecting teen social development, rich-get-richer and social compensation theories. Rich-get-richer refers to socially adept and confident teens with well-established peer groups using social networking sites to maintain ... world (Anderson-Butcher, 2010). There is strong evidence for the existence of both effects on teens but could both these theories actually be hurtful when put in context of healthy teen social developmen...

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