My daughter #2 starts high school in the fall, and she's been at an orientaiton camp this week. yesterday she came home in tears, because she wasn't having any luck making friends. She said all the kids at the camp already know each other (most kids come from a different middle school than the one my daughter attended) and they just want to talk to each other about what everyone is doing over the summer.
We talked about the difference between not liking a person, and just not having anything yet to talk to them about. We also talked about how friends are made - first you meet someone, then you get to know them, then you become friends. This seemed to be a revelation to her, as she expected to meet people and immediately become the circle of friends. Why she expected this, I'm not sure.
Social networking is the number one most important activity of teenagers, and even though much is in the air lately about online social networking, in-person social lives still matter.
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