i hate this article. ellie, why are you opting to mock and shame a clearly miserable 18-year-old who seems to be extremely mature, even if emotional? i think it’s incredibly admirable of her to speak out against the dark side of social media. there have been countless reputable studies claiming that obsession with the…

Proud of this teen.

I def don’t think this is obvious to a lot of people. Even adults. It’s a bizarre world of going to a music festival just to get dressed up and post pictures of how hot you looked.

To all the people who like to point how obvious all of these things are yet simultaneously suggest that young people are naive, how is it wrong for her, a big pov for apparently a lot of those young naive kids, to help them understand that they’re being naive? Like, are we seriously going to suggest that there aren’t…

So what? Let her be successful in whatever way she chooses. If that success stems from trying to educate people her age that social media is not real life by reaching them through the only medium she knows might reach them, then fucking power to her.

Awww, I can’t make fun of her, this is actually really sad!

I’ve never heard of this person before but I’m proud of her.

She’s 18 - I don’t think this is a cynically planned move to expand an online empire - she is just being honest about how social media doesn’t present a true reflection despite its many attempts to seem that way, something that she got caught up with. She was 15 in many of the pictures, you can’t blame her for going…

But, she’s also 18. If I had that kind of platform for my existential revelations at 18...

I agree. It seems silly to us who are older and know better, but younger teens really get caught up in social media. Facebook was just becoming popular when I started high school, I remember feeling isolated and inadequate seeing photo albums of parties that I wasn’t invited to. Kids these days have Facebook times 20…

It’s not that weird. The latest crop of Jezebel writers really, really like being as shitty as possible in this exact way. Sure is more understandable why their most talented writing staff seems to move on so quickly...

The interesting thing is that her current critique of social media IS valid. So she doesn’t need to be 100% authentic for her contribution to mean something. Anyway. This is like an alien world for me. Nobody has ever paid me to wear a skirt. So deeply weird.

Good for her. Seriously. Maybe as adults we can snark about this because social media didn’t really become a thing until we had gotten past our worst and most vulnerable teenage years, but kids are saturated in this stuff from the minute they are born. One of my facebook friends likes to post tons of pictures of her…

A lot of people don’t really understand how much social media has altered these teens’ lives. I think it’s easy for us olds (and I’m 26, but compared to today’s kids I’m an old) to say that social media isn’t a big deal, but we didn’t grow up with it like they have. She’s probably been active on social media since she…

Knowing only what I know from this article, I think this is pretty great. To be self-aware enough at 18 to make this kind of a change, when you’re “living the dream” as far as most teenagers are concerned, is pretty impressive.

There are a lot of commenters on here mocking her for...why?

I want to snark and make some silly comment about how I’m renouncing my internet presence for a more serious life of scholarly contemplation and that I’m actually a 75-year-old married housewife, etc...

I do not super understand Instagram and all its ~famous people~, but I can see my 13 year old niece taking this really seriously and this girl seems to have a much healthier message than a lot of other Insta-teens out there..

Good for her. I know people twice her age with not even one-tenth of her self-awareness.

i read through all her pictures last night and am proud of her insight, but she’s still totally a teenager and will probably cringe even at the edited captions in a few years