11-02-2013, 07:04 PM
Teens today live in the age of social media and already know the swiftness at which communications, rumors, and unravelings travel. Social media therefore doesn't really factor into the foundation of the matter, IMO.
The minute that my teen-aged attempts to cleanly avoid a wrath by telling a lie resulted in somebody else being falsely accused (even one of my sisters, who might have deserved it in my mind), I came clean. Getting away with something - cool. Letting someone else take the fall for it for any duration, even worse than being a snitch in my family and culture.
It's all relative, I guess.
The minute that my teen-aged attempts to cleanly avoid a wrath by telling a lie resulted in somebody else being falsely accused (even one of my sisters, who might have deserved it in my mind), I came clean. Getting away with something - cool. Letting someone else take the fall for it for any duration, even worse than being a snitch in my family and culture.
It's all relative, I guess.