3 simple ways to avoid making big mistakes as a teen using social media
 

3 simple ways to avoid making big mistakes as a teen using social media
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Social media may connect and empower a teenager, but it can also become a permanent record of a young person's disgraceful behavior.*

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Karlie Hay, the newly crowned Miss Teen USA, learned this lesson the hard way. Soon after Hay claimed her mantle on Saturday, it became apparent that the 18-year-old Texan used a racial slur on Twitter four times in 2013 and 2014.*

Hay, who is white, vaguely addressed the matter on Twitter and Instagram, **ting that "personal struggles" led to the use of language she wasn't proud of and couldn't excuse. The old tweets, however, haven't cost Hay her crown.* Read more...

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