Teens, Social Media, and Privacy

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http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Teens-Social-Media-And-Privacy.aspx

These findings are based on a nationally representative phone survey run by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project of 802 parents and their 802 teens ages 12-17. It was conducted between July 26 and September 30, 2012. Interviews were conducted in English and Spanish and on landline and cell phones. The margin of error for the full sample is ± 4.5 percentage points. Source: Teen privacy survey 2012

This report marries that data with insights and quotes from in-person focus groups conducted by the Youth and Media team at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University beginning in February 2013. The focus groups focused on privacy and digital media, with special emphasis on social media sites.

>>>> This process of interaction with insights and quotes from semi-structured interviews and ethnographic data could be done as well in my dissertation. Presenting some of the secondary data to contextualize the overall trend in the USA society.


Key findings include:

Teens are sharing more information about themselves on their social media profiles than they did when we last surveyed in 2006: 

   91% post a photo of themselves, up from 79% in 2006.
   71% post their school name, up from 49%.
   71% post the city or town where they live, up from 61%.
   53% post their email address, up from 29%.
   20% post their cell phone number, up from 2%.

60% of teen Facebook users set their Facebook profiles to private (friends only), and most report high levels of confidence in their ability to manage their settings. 

   56% of teen Facebook users say it’s “not difficult at all” to manage the privacy controls on their Facebook profile.
   33% Facebook-using teens say it’s “not too difficult.”
   8% of teen Facebook users say that managing their privacy controls is “somewhat difficult,” while less than 1% describe the process as “very difficult.”


http://www.pewinternet.org/Infographics/2013/Teens-Social-Media-And-Privacy.aspx


Teen internet access demographics:

http://www.pewinternet.org/Trend-Data-%28Teens%29/Whos-Online.aspx

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