Rachel Simmons

A recent study from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that young people spend an average of more than 7.5 hours a day using entertainment media. From Twitter to text messaging, technology no longer simply connects teen girls—it plays an integral part in their friendships. But it's also unleashing new kinds of conflict and new ways to get hurt.

Dear Rachel, I'm having problems with my "best friend." She has become extremely competitive about everything: grades, appearance and especially boys. She's always been very popular and has no problem getting guys but she...

Hey Rachel, I met this guy at a party a couple of months ago through mutual friends. This guy is a player. I know I should run and probably never look back. I don't know...

Dear Rachel, I absolutely, completely, 100 percent-ly hate my nose. Like I can't stand it at all. And the worst part is, some days I look in the mirror and it looks fine, other times I look and I want...

Hey Rachel, First of all let me apologize if I do some grammar mistakes, English is not my mother tongue. ... :D So here's my problem. There's this guy, who I met this semester at college, and we became friends...

Do you have a Formspring.me account? It's all the rage these days. I'm not loving it myself. Is it really worth it to find out what other people think of you? See what I think, and leave a comment...

Hi Rachel! Well see there is this guy that I've always been oddly attracted to. We met about a year and a half ago. He told my friend that he thought I was pretty...

Dear Rachel, I've always felt safe in my family, and for the most part, loved. My mom and I have always been close, I have a nice relationship with my sister, and my dad...

Dear Rachel, Over this year, I've become very close with this one guy. We talk all the time, and we pretty much know everything about each other. We have both seen each other go...

Hey TV readers...Does your life ever feel like the movie Mean Girls? Are you being bullied by other girls? Are your friends more like frenemies? The story of Phoebe Prince, the girl who committed suicide...

Dear Rachel, This was my first year of High School and I was really excited. I actually started off really well, and befriended these two girls who I ended up forming what you might call...

Dear Rachel, I've been friends with one girl for two years. She can be quite bossy, so we argue a lot, but she's too stubborn to admit when she's wrong, and I can be...

Dear Rachel, My prom is coming up soon. I'm going to go with a group of six friends with one friend bringing her boyfriend. My problem isn't the boyfriend. It's one of my friends. She...

Dear Rachel, Over the past few months, I've recently become very close with this guy who may or may not be in the closet about his sexuality. He only hangs out with girls and...

Dear Rachel, I recently got invited to a party that's tomorrow, Saturday, night. It's rather small, about thirty kids, and I'm friends with everyone who's going. At the last get together my crush and I hung out the entire...

Dear Rachel, My friends and I are having huge problems with this one girl in our group! There are 4 of us in the group, and we've all been BFFs since the 6th grade (9th grade now), but one...

Dear Rachel, I am really angry with my best friend and I have no idea why or what I should do about it. We have been friends for 9 years, and we have always...

Dear Rachel, I am a freshman in high school and I never kissed a boy or dated a boy. You always see couples in my school. I feel like what's wrong with me, why don't...

Dear Rachel... How do I deal with my obnoxious, overreacting, jealous, clingy, rude, and generally hard-to-deal with best friends? There's so many things I could say about them. I love them both, I've been best...

Hey Rachel, I have a question for you. I like this guy and I dont know if he likes me back, how will I know if he likes me?? Allison Okay, kids, gather round. It's time for me to...

Dear Rachel, I am in 8th grade and next year am starting high school. I am really nervous about it, especially about losing my friends. It's taken me a really long time but I've finally found a couple of girls...

Dear Rachel, Hey! So I have been having a huge problem with this guy I've known for about 3 or 4 years now. We became pretty good friends in 8th grade. Back then I had horrible anxiety problems, and could...

Hey Rachel! So I have some issues! My best friend (or so I thought) Emma absolutely hates my other best friend Sally. Sally has no problem with Emma! Emma talks about me and Sally...

Dear Rachel, Hey! I'm having some "girl" issues. In school there's this girl, and I've known her since fourth grade. We used to be best friends, but new people came along. Now whomever I'm hanging out with she always...