Crafting your image for your 1,000 friends on Facebook or MySpace

Students are creating idealized versions of themselves on social networking websites — Facebook and MySpace are the most popular — and using these sites to explore their emerging identities, UCLA psychologists report. Parents often understand very little about this phenomenon, they say.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news146249706.html">Crafting your image for your 1,000 friends on Facebook or MySpace</a></p> <p>Students are creating idealized versions of themselves on social networking websites — Facebook and MySpace are the most popular — and using these sites to explore their emerging identities, UCLA psychologists report. Parents often understand very little about this phenomenon, they say.</p>