Yes, you thought that everyone was just being themselves, but teens, those extrasensory beings, are fed up with all the flimflam and fluff that's all over their Twitters and Facebooks.

 

I take this information from a new survey. It says 69 percent of the 812 young people aged¹ 13-22 insisted that they're very rarely themselves on social media. It's not clear who they actually are on social media. They can't all be Beyoncé and Jay-Z, can they?

 

This sense of an inauthentic virtual world has apparently² caused them to post less. 66 percent said they had cut back.

 

Boys, though, will be big-mouths. In this survey, they were 70 percent more likely than girls to claim they posted everything about themselves, unedited.

 

Still, this quaint³ clinging to a need for their friends to be more real on social media smacks⁴ of a touching⁵ idealism. 63 percent said that they found it very tough to read their friends' "fluff" online. But they still presumably read it. It's a social convention, after all.

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