In her article “Teenage Social Media Butterflies May Not Be Such a Bad Idea,” Melissa Healy argues that the psychologically healthiest kids are those that tend to spend a lot of time on social networking sites. She supports this claim by stating that adolescents that use social media sites to talk and interact with friends on a daily basis, not conversing with people they don’t know and she also describes how social networking sites guide children into creating their own separate identities. Then, Healy claims that parents of well-adjusted teens don’t have a lot to worry about because their children will be consistent with their behavior online and offline and most American children ages 8-18 years old uses social media for more
