batseven: your implication (conscious or not) is that high school girls cannot use the internet responsibly. That is absolutely untrue. As a teenager online, I use the internet in what is in my opinion a responsible way. I know that most of my internet use is communicating with my friends and research for school- and recreational things I do are vetted by my parents. (However many posts I may write, YWN actually uses a very small percentage of my time…) I believe that children need to be told how to use the internet responsibly and to be given positive messages about healthy internet use EVEN IF they are not permitted to use the internet at that point.
Your evidence is circumstantial. I can just as easily (and truthfully) say that I’ve gone through high school aided by responsible internet use and that I was mature about it. Both of our statements have relatively equal weight- neither of us is proving anything. My only point is not to think that girls who DO use internet are not necessarily “frum” enough (a word I absolutely abhor but that’s a rant for a different day).