became more urgent and more defined. A timeline may not be a virtual reality chamber, but it can help our brains see time for what it really is: limi… - Meg Jay

Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.

One thing I have learned is that many, many people feel isolated with similar problems, unaware that they are not as alone or as different as they think.

Despite its revolutionary promises, Facebook can turn our everyday lives into that wedding we have all heard about: the one where the bride chooses her prettiest friends, not her best friends, to be bridesmaids. It can feel like a popularity contest where being Liked is what matters, being the best is the only respectable option, how our partners look is more important than how they act, the race to get married is on, and we have to be clever all the time. It can be just another place, not to be, but to seem.