One day last year, Amanda Coleman decided to quit Facebook.
It wasn't one precipitating event that led her to her decision, but a slow build -- a series of disturbing, sometimes anguished conversations.
Coleman, a college student and the president of her sorority, found herself spending a lot of time counseling young girls, many of them freshman at the university.
"They would call or come in to see me for advice, crying that they were stressed out," she said.
As it turned out, the insecurities that bedeviled the girls were often fueled by social networking sites.
"At some point I began noticing that Facebook was being mentioned in some way in just about every conversation."
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