Some experts believe social-networking trend has reached saturation point, reports the Associated Press.

… One written survey found that the large majority of students were members of at least one social networking site — 81 percent of them on MySpace. They also found that 89 percent of those students had cell phones, most of them with text and Web surfing capabilities.

They are more wired than ever — but they’re also getting warier.

Increasingly, they’ve had to deal with online bullies, who are posting anything from unflattering photos to online threats.

Privacy issues also are hitting home, most recently when students discovered that personal updates on their Facebook pages were being automatically forwarded to contacts they didn’t necessarily want to have the information. Facebook was forced to let users turn off the data stream after they rebelled.

Increasingly, young people also are realizing that things they post on their profiles can come back to haunt them when applying for school or jobs.

“Maybe everything we thought was so great wasn’t as great as we thought,” says Tina Wells, the 20-something CEO of Buzz Marketing, a New York-based firm with young advisers all over the world.