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[quote=Anonymous]Here's my totally unfounded theory on it: We're entering the "generation" (or ages) where the people now in fraternities have never NOT known social media. It's the only way they communicate.

Social media has been around and popular for 10 years - absolutely. But the college-age young adults using it had lived without that way of communicating through most of their teen years. They were old enough to remember before social media and to have been lectured about the risks of the internet by their parents.

We're just now reaching the age where 18-20 year olds today truly don't remember before social media. They don't have the same sense of caution about it. Pictures that in the last decade were sent via mass text are now being posted on social media and the people think it is private - but it isn't.

We're about to enter a whole new world of social media faux pas where people are going to be caught doing a lot of things they've always done - but they're communicating it in a way that is going to make them more vulnerable to getting caught.

That's my take on it. I'm 29, for what that's worth. There is a huge change between how I interact with social media and my cousins who are 10 - 14 years younger than me do, because of how they grew up with it. [/quote]

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