I repeatedly tell my oldest kids—both nascent teenagers—how happy I am not to be in middle school in the social media fishbowl these kids have to endure today.

 High school was bad enough for a geek like me back in the 1980s, and this was decades before being a geek was cool(ish). I can't even imagine how much worse life would have been dealing with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and whatever else while trying to hang onto my lunch money.

Maybe the dangers of social media cut both ways, too. A teacher right here in our backyard in Colorado got herself into trouble with her Twitter account – @Crunk_Bear. (And don't bother checking. It's already been taken down). Seems the first-year high school teacher, who's real name is Carly McKinney, thought she was still in college, posting tweets celebrating the "herbal" lifestyle and half-naked pics of herself, among other minutiae. Although marijuana's technically legal here in Colorado now, most employers frown on space cakes at the office.