But because these other teens were recruited and paid by a third party called watchLAB and didn’t know which company their interview was for, they were more likely to be totally honest about how they felt. Sometimes brutally honest. The teens revealed that they would meticulously manage their feeds to make a good impression. They had all sorts of unspoken social rules for themselves. They kept track of their follow ratio, and didn’t want to follow more people than were following them back. They wanted more than eleven likes on each photo, so the list of names turned into a number. They sent
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