How to Survive Online Embarrassment

Despite many warnings and much media publicity regarding the dangers of carelessness regarding one's "digital footprint" in recent years, many people—and teens in particular—do not seem to be getting the message. Readers discover this incredibly needful guide not only about how to survive online embarrassment but how to prevent it altogether. Each spread is dynamically designed, and bursting with textual enhancements such as girl-to-girl talks, top 5 best/worst lists, Keeping It Real lists, All about You activities, Quick Facts, Quick Quizzes, Talking Points, Fact Files, and real teen comments. Of indispensable utility to teens, this resource is also a wonderful tool for teachers seeking to meet Common Core curriculum standards for the reading of informational texts, satisfying those standards relating to determining the central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through supporting details, summarizing a text without opinions or judgments, tracing and evaluating the argument and specific claims, determining the validity of the author's reasoning and evidence, and determining an author's point of view and purpose.