You’ve opened your own Facebook account, you’ve friended your teenage children, and you’re feeling pretty pleased with yourself that there are no pictures, videos or awkward messages that might embarrass the family. There’s only one problem: your kids aren’t using Facebook anymore.
As parents and even grandparents flock to join Facebook, many kids are headed in the opposite direction, choosing platforms that better suit their instant messaging lifestyles and are not monitored by family, teachers, and other adults that are firmly outside their inner circles.
That doesn’t mean that kids are misbehaving on these other networks…