I read technology articles quite often and see plenty of authors attempt to dissect or describe the teenage audience, especially in regards to social media. However, I have yet to see a teenager contribute their voice to this discussion.

This is fair-to-middlin' amazing. I find teenagers are virtually incapable of shutting up about social media. More than that, danah boyd's book, which was ballyhooed by pretty much every media outlet from Parade to The Economist, is nothing more than a longitudinal ethnographic study of teenagers talking about social media.

This article will not use any studies, data, sources, etc. This is because you can easily get that from any other technology news website and analyze from there.

This is also a semi-amazing statement. There's virtually no data or studies done on teens and social media. Most of the information is proprietary and created and curated by those websites that use it. When you're in the business of selling data, giving it away is crazy. Nobody does it. Sherry Turkle has been studying kids-with-computers since the Apple II and she's got plenty to say, but few journalists have the attention span to listen.

Instagram hasn't been flooded with the older generation yet (not everyone has an Instagram) meaning it’s “hip” and “cool” to the younger crowd.

And this is hilarious. I'd be seriously suspect of any teenager that describes Instagram as "hip" or "cool."

To be honest, a lot of us simply do not understand the point of Twitter.

And this is true for anyone from eight to eighty.