My 12 year old cousin is on Instagram. I was on myspace when I was that age. So who cares. Maybe it's our different personalities but I freaked out when I saw that hashtagged sexy one of the pictures she posted of herself and her best friend. #SEXY! Are you kidding me?!
When I was thirteen, I was goth and punk and all over the place. The pictures I posted online were of me climbing a tree. I think I called myself a bitch when I turned 15. Right after I got myspace I understood that your top 8 and your pictures were super important. I'm sure it's the same thing now with my cousin and Instagram. But seriously, I was comfortable with using the word sexy until I went to college. And lets just say I didn't grow up with a computer or the internet. The internet was never my life. I'll admit I wanted to be on Facebook all the time and I wanted to be on myspace, but there was only one computer in the house and it was in my parents' bedroom. Not a lot of access there.
Kids that are growing up with the internet and Facebooking, and tweeting, and instagraming, and whatever else there is are growing up way too fast. They get exposed to so many things so quickly. In my opinion, that sucks. Why should tweens be exposed to adult life so early. I don't want my 12 year old cousin referring to herself as sexy. She can call herself sexy in front of her husband, not on Instagram where anybody can see her picture if they just search #sexy. Next thing I know, she'll be posting a picture of herself in a bikini at the beach posing like a Victoria's Secret model. Ughh!
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