Dangerous Teen Fads You Should Know About

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Drinking Hand Sanitizer, Facebook Hookup Pages, Boob Tweets and Smoking Smarties: 31 Dangerous Teen Fads You Should Know About

Do you know what your teen is doing with her friends? Read on to learn about 31 dangerous, even deadly, teen fads you need to know about (31 Photos)

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a -iVillage on Apr 3, 2013 at 10:41AM

From drinking hand sanitizer to smoking smarties to car surfing and more, many teens are endangering their lives with risky behaviors. Read on for more dangerous fads, then have a conversation with your kids.

Facebook Pages for Drunken College Hookups
As if we needed another reason to worry about college drinking, now there are Facebook pages whose sole purpose is to detail intoxicated sexual exploits among students. "UC Berkeley Hook-Ups," for example, brands itself as a campus Missed Connections forum "specifically designed to help the fellow drunk locate his/her Berk town hookup." While some students use the page to track down a recent hookup who they think might be the co-ed of their dreams (or at least they thought so after several shots on an empty stomach), most are public rants about sloppy sexual encounters gone wrong.

According to The Huffington Post, even though the authors of these explicit posts are anonymous, their unwitting subjects don't appear to have the same protection. From a post on the UC Santa Barbara hookups page: "...To the tall blonde guy named TJ... at first glance I thought you were a total babe... then we started to make out and that's when it started to go downhill."

What's worse -- yes, it actually gets worse -- a startling number of posts describe possible sexual assault. While students at some schools are trying to get a policy in place that will better protect their classmates' privacy, most campus administrations and officials from Facebook have be unable -- or unwilling -- to get involved.