Imagine a drug that made American teenagers think and talk more about the timeless concerns of adolescence: who's cool, who's cute and who's going out with whom. Then imagine that millions of teens were taking this drug, every day.
You don't have to. The drug exists, and it is called "Facebook."
There are competitor drugs, too, such as "My Space."
Between one-half and three-quarters of American teens now have a profile on an Internet social networking site, where they spend hours each week -- nobody really knows how many -- sharing pictures, gossip and jokes. And we should all be worried about it, although not for the reasons you might suspect.
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