Stupid Teenage Tricks, for a Virtual Audience

I want to save stories like this for when the kids grow up. With an undeveloped pre-frontal cortex I feel like they should read it each day.



I also liked this theory of "imaginary audience" at the end of the piece. I remember that feeling and can't really fathom what it would be like to live in the internet age as a young person given that innate feeling of audience:

Beyond the obvious risks of filming dangerous stunts, some doctors are intrigued by how the Internet may be influencing normal adolescent development. Dr. Moreno notes that one of the distinguishing characteristics of early adolescence is the "imaginary audience" -- the self-conscious feeling that everybody is watching you.

"For kids in middle school, a really normal part of that is the perception that you're on stage, and that everybody is looking at you," says Dr. Moreno. "But for kids today it's a different world they're growing up in. It's a world where there really is that audience."