Oxford University Press USA</br></br>Product Description</br></br>Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. Social media has become the dominant force in young people's lives and each day seems to bring another shocking tale of private pictures getting into the wrong hands or a lament that young people feel compelled to share their each and every thought with the entire world. Have smartphones and social media created a generation of self-obsessed egomaniacs?<br><br>Absolutely not Donna Freitas argues in this provocative book. And she says these alarmist fears are drawing attention away from the real issues that young adults are facing. <br><br>Drawing on a large-scale survey and interviews with students on thirteen college campuses Freitas finds that what young people are overwhelmingly concerned with--what they really want to talk about--is happiness. They face enormous pressure to look perfect online--not just happy but blissful ecstatic and fabulously successful. Unable to achieve this impossible standard they are anxious about letting the less-than-perfect parts of themselves become public. Far from wanting to share everything they are brutally selective when it comes to curating their personal profiles?? and worry obsessively that they might unwittingly post something that could come back to haunt them later in life. Through candid conversations with young people from diverse backgrounds?? Freitas reveals how even the most well-adjusted in