Facebook has become one of the biggest influences on the lives of girls, according to a survey.
A study of eight to 15-year-olds for National Family Week found 40% of girls identified Facebook as one of the most important things in their lives – compared with 6% of boys.
Parents were found to underestimate the significance of technology.
The role of social networking was particularly important in families with a single mother as parent.
Uh, does this indicate a problem with egalitarianism or does it indicate a problem with what we inculcate in our girls?
This also reminds me of a survey done early in the 20th Century – 100 years ago; the question was, what is the most significant invention? Women chose overwhelmingly “indoor plumbing”. I never heard what men chose but I’d guess “the automobile”.
Don