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ARTICLE · 18 MARCH 2014

Increasing Wave Of Secret Internet Communication

A new wave of apps are gaining popularity among young people. Facebook has lost its caché as ones parents, and horror of horrors, even grandparents, are active members with posts appearing in young people's news feeds.

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A new wave of apps are gaining popularity among young people.  Facebook has lost its caché as ones parents, and horror of horrors, even grandparents, are active members with posts appearing in young people's news feeds.  Twitter had became the anti-Facebook, with its short, 140 character tweets a way for young people to express themselves in short streams of consciousness.  Instead of personal profiles of likes, photos of life's milestone, relationships, high school and colleges, religion, hometown, residency etc., Tweeter allows one to just communicate brief ideas.

However, the youth of the world finds even Twitter to be too constraining.  It forces you to identify yourself. This leads to a whole host of concerns, including the need to watch what you say, and how you say it (including grammar and spelling) or suffer the scrutiny of your friends, "real" and virtual (online) ones. Often young people feel that they cannot be themselves and have to conform to an

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