Facebook is a force multiplier, for sure. The thing of it is, though, it hasn't added to the vetting, it's shifted the vetting. Whereas you and I used to rely on face-to-face communication and innuendo, it can now be done digitally... so the personal slander-mongering has actually gone down. My data on this is scarce - conversations with a few teenagers - but Facebook hasn't created a surveillance culture, it's created an ornate and intricate world where digital missteps matter too much.

As far as the proliferation of porn, it's at least one cause for forceable rape dropping 30 percent and may be related to the plummeting teenage pregnancy rates in the United States. And I don't know about you, but we sure as fuck had John Holmes anal sex videos in 8th grade, they were just SLP on VHS. You could buy them by the truckload out of the back of National Lampoon.

One of the reasons I have no tolerance for cutters is I dated two and knew five... back in '91. Cindy Crawford may have been the norm, but you can't blame the Internet for this list. And fuckin' A - I hooked up plenty. We just called them "one night stands" and they were points of pride for men, points of shame for women. At least now we've got some equality.

The Internet complicates the fuck out of things. I've raged about this before. But to somehow think the trevails of modern adolescent life are wholly due to the proliferation of the Internet is naive.