I would like you to take a second and try to remember what it was like to be in high school. (Just one second and then I promise you can push those memories back where they belong)

Think back to the confusion, the cliques, and the hormones everyone was trying to control.

There were always questions you wished you could ask people. Rumors that you were dying to know the truth about. Relationships you wanted the scoop on and simple things you wondered like what kind of shampoo does she use? What kind of cologne is he wearing? (so I can buy it and spray it on my pillow each night)

Or maybe that was just me…

These are all of the reasons that I was totally fascinated with Formspring. The majority of their users appear to be in the high-school through college demographic. Users can submit questions to their friends, mentors, and favorite bloggers. Anonymously. I can only imagine the questions I would have asked. The trouble I would have gotten in…

Recently, I caught wind of another website with a purpose similarly intriguing. Like A Little allows users to describe someone that they saw on campus (or elsewhere) and profess their undying love for said person. Anonymously. College students are flocking to this website sifting through the descriptions and attempting to guess who likes whom.

For decades parents have been proclaiming that life as a child/teenager/college student is the same today as it was back then. This has remained essentially true in that adolescent life generally consists of experiences, emotions, and problems regardless of the time you are living in. I am not sure how much longer we are going to be able to say that with confidence.

All of this new technology popping up attempting to solve the struggles of adolescence leave me wondering how this might change adolescence.

What are your thoughts? Share them with me!