Why Teen Girls Need More Altruism on Social Media if Humanity Matters?
What is time worth if you make bad choices and forfeit the future?
Who has not looked at a newborn baby girl and marveled at the perfect creation of humanity? The precious face, arms, legs, little fingers with near transparent fingernails and tiny toes. Who hasn’t looked at a little girl and marveled at her innocence, openness to listen and learn and the genuine warmth that generates the love that’s all accepting and transcendent?
Who hasn’t wished that each little girl will grow up through teen challenges to become a young responsible woman to motherhood herself as one of the most important roles she will ever have to give birth and pass on her values and unconditional love?
So, at what point along the rites of adolescent passage will they encounter social media, the recent interloper that is so omnipresent that it has normalized its manipulation as part of teenagers’ experiences? What platforms does it offer to stand on to recognize their needs for self- esteem, self-worth or life’s values? Where will they look to find inherent beauty and intrinsic worth? What will they take away from others to sustain their Selfie ego? What online world will they inhabit to cope with a selfish, aggressive, competitive and antisocial virtual…
