![]() ![]() "Sales painstakingly draws on scholarly research and numerous interviews with girls from New Jersey to California to offer a harrowing glimpse into a world where self-esteem, friendships and sexuality play out, and are defined by the parameters of social media." -USA Today "Sales forces us to face a disturbing new reality in a book that should be required reading for parents, teachers, school administrators, legislators and the boys' club of Silicon Valley." -The San Francisco Chronicle She has sophisticated methods of infiltration." -The Wall Street Journal Conversations that are not safe for adults seem to open like apps under her fingertips. and she's exquisitely unobtrusive as she does it. Sales spent two and a half years investigating this paradox. "Social media is life social media destroys life. "Based on interviews with hundreds of teens from 13 to 19, this exploration of the hypersexualized, social-media-ruled world girls grow up in today is eye-opening and sobering." -People might be on Facebook and Twitter, but they probably haven't even heard of most of the apps that teens use, let alone how they use them.What Sales makes clear is just how prevalent social media is in the life of an American teenager." -The New York Post "Sales digs into every aspect of girls' online lives, revealing myriad disturbing details.If you have a teenage daughter, read American Girls. " American Girls is probably one of the most urgent conversation starters I've read in some time." -Psychology Today ![]()
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