Teens migrating to Twitter _ sometimes for privacy

Teens don’t tweet, will never tweet - too public, too many older users. Not cool.

That’s been the prediction for a while now, born of numbers showing that fewer than one in 10 teens were using Twitter early on.

But then their parents, grandparents, neighbors, parents’ friends and anyone in-between started friending them on Facebook, the social networking site of choice for many - and a curious thing began to happen.

Suddenly, their space wasn’t just theirs anymore. So more young people have started shifting to Twitter, almost hiding in plain sight.

“I love twitter, it’s the only thing I have to myself … cause my parents don’t have one,” Britteny Praznik, a 17-year-old who lives outside Milwaukee, gleefully tweeted recently.

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    Considering how often...New York revolve around Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, or some
  4. durdenbury reblogged this from brooklynmutt and added:
    Now isn’t it ironic I found this...tumblr? The TRUE place
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  6. nottoooldfor reblogged this from brooklynmutt and added:
    My kids are fucked. I use
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  8. digressionpost said: Substitute Twitter for Tumblr, and that’s me.
  9. mynumerousmusings said: This is me, precisely.
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