In this talk, Anda Pascu explores her experience as (what sometimes feels like) the world's only teenager without social media, providing a much needed adolescent perspective on the very hot topic of social media use. She discusses the positive and the negative impacts and finally, presents strategies to reach the best of both worlds. Anda is a Romanian student in grade 10 at an international school in Zurich. She moved to Switzerland when she was 7 years old and spent her time learning German and skiing in the mountains. She is now interested in politics, economics, and psychology and hopes to study PPE at Oxford University in the future. In her spare time, she loves to read, draw, and spend time with her friends in the city. In her TEDx talk, she will discuss the nuanced role social media plays in young people's lives from a unique perspective as a teenager without social media. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx