9 Things You Need to Know About Teens, Technology,& Online Privacy

Lenhart, A. (2013). 9 Things You Need to Know About Teens, Technology & Online Privacy. [Powerpoint]. Retrieved from: http://www.pweinternet.org/2013/11/7/9-Things-You-Need-to-Know-About-Teens-Technology-and-Online-Privacy/ This powerpoint is like the other articles that I have looked at. It says that 95% of teens use the Internet. 74% are mobile Internet users, 37% own smart phones, 25% are cell mostly Internet users, and 24% use Twitter. According to this report, teens share more about themselves than adults do. 60% of teens have private Facebook accounts, 64% have public tweets. A typical teen has 300 Facebook friends. I can see how that is possible, because when I opened up my account for this class, there must have been at least 100 people pop up on my account. Those with 600 or more friends are more frequent users, have profiles on a wider range of other social media platforms, are more likely to be friends with teachers and coaches, and more likely to be friends with people they have not met in person. That last comment is very disturbing to me because there are too many things that can happen to teens when they friend people that they have never met. Of the teens who are concerned about privacy, 74% of teens have deleted people, 59% have deleted posts from the past, 53% have deleted comments form other people, 45% have removed their names from photos, 31% have deleted an entire profile,19% have posted items that they later regretted, and 9% of teens are very concerned that some of their information may be accessed by others. This presentation also talked about teens who asked other people for advice about privacy. It said that 70% of teens are asking peers and parents for advice on privacy. Of those 70%, 42% asked friends or peers, 41% asked parents, 37% asked a sibling or a cousin, 13% have gone to a website for advice, 9% have gone to a teacher, and 3% have gone to some other person or resource. It is so very refreshing to see that teens are going to others for advice and not doing it on their own. 12 slides