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July 30, 2010, 11:13 am
With all of millions of people participating in social-networking sites and programs today, it can be hard to remember sometimes that this common hobby can still be dangerous. You may think that the only people who are able to view your information are the “friends” on your page, but that is a common misconception. Child predators, police officials and the government all have their ways of accessing your pages—putting you at risk of possibly attracting unwanted attention or, at worst, getting busted.
Facebook, for instance, is a great way to meet new people, reconnect with old friends [ ...continue reading ]
May 25, 2010, 9:46 am
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Any girl would love a $1,000 shopping spree, however I think it meant a bit more to three girls from Haiti: Chantal Mori (17), Sarah Maurice (8) and Margarette Pierre (17). These girls, who lost limbs in the earthquake in Haiti, were brought to New York by Wyclef Jean’s organization Yéle Haiti to be fitted for prosthetic limbs. Kmart teamed up with Yéle Haiti and donated $1,000 to each girl to buy anything they wanted, from dresses to digital cameras to shampoo.
Attending this event was very meaningful and exciting to me. Watching Sarah have [ ...continue reading ]
May 13, 2010, 8:37 am
Today I went to my very first conference! It was called What Teens Want Marketing Conference. As we walked in, I was handed a guest pass and a gift bag full of many different items, including a cute notepad and pen, a Pop Star magazine, a $10 prepaid card to Stardoll and some other stuff, too. Being at a conference about, well, me automatically made me feel quite special. We walked into the big hall where the conference was being held—it reminded me of a room where a bar mitzvah might be hosted. We sat down at a [ ...continue reading ]
May 12, 2010, 1:12 pm
Saying goodbye is one of the hardest things a person can do, even if it’s just for a little while. For a teenage girl to be leaving her best friend for a whopping three and a half weeks is never easy. My best friend, Gadea, goes to boarding school with me and lives in Madrid, Spain, when she’s not at school. I only see her during the school year, and after this year, she will return to Spain to finish the rest of her high school career there. Everyday spent with her now is precious. This is why [ ...continue reading ]
May 10, 2010, 8:47 am
Original photo by D Sharon Pruitt
Nobody can deny that Starbucks is the leading coffee company in our country. But what’s the deal with teenage girls and Starbucks? Starbucks has become more than just a coffee shop for teenage girls; rather, it’s another aspect of personal style. Walk into school with your North Face backpack, out-of-bed messy ponytail that you secretly spent 20 minutes trying to make look perfect, with the Nars bronzer not overdone and a Venti skinny vanilla latte from Starbucks, and you’ve suddenly become the coolest girl in the school.
Little does anybody [ ...continue reading ]
March 22, 2010, 3:55 pm
A teenage girl with plans to go to a party, dance, dinner with friends, etc. will convince herself that she has nothing to wear. She will go through her whole closet looking for the perfect outfit or that really cute top she bought just a couple weeks ago, but she’ll ultimately decide that she wants something new! She will go out of her way to make a trip to the mall. And when she goes she’ll end up buying a new shirt and manage to find a belt to go [ ...continue reading ]
March 3, 2010, 5:55 pm
At 7:25 every night I say goodbye to my best friend: my BlackBerry. I slide my phone into the box labeled with my last name in the common room and trudge down the long hallway to my room. At 7:30, my prefect’s voice echoes loudly through the dorm: “Study hall’s in, girls!!” Great.
Now for the worst part. My Internet shuts off. I am stuck sitting uncomfortably at a wooden desk for two hours. Unable to text, Facebook, IM, or video chat until 9:30, when the Internet is back and all is as it should be.
Cruel and [ ...continue reading ]
February 11, 2010, 5:02 pm
When teenage girls wake up in the morning, what are the first things they do? They brush their teeth, they wash their face and, before going downstairs to eat breakfast, they look in their mirror for an hour or more, trying to decide what to wear.
Why do they do this? A teenage guy can roll out of bed and take less than two minutes to pick any random T-shirt lying on his floor, yet a girl would walk into school with him thinking how charming he is and wishing he would ask her out.
So [ ...continue reading ]
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