Today more than three-quarters of teens ages 12 to 17 are social media users. They are doing everything from posting status updates to playing games, posting on friends’ walls, tagging people, chatting and more. But in addition to these tasks they are also dealing with unkindness and cruelty—a task that many adult social media users may find surprising.
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According to a study done by the Pew Research Center, 69% of social media-using teens think their peers are mostly kind to one another.
All due respect, parents need to take the time to communicate to their children about social network’s shortcomings. They need to have some familiarity on how to use the different social networks. Using a social network essentially requires the use of your real name and identity; many people often post excessive amounts of personal data including their daily habits and locations.
A new study has found over 5,000 YouTube videos on self-injury. These disturbing videos are attracting millions of views and psychologists fear that they may be serving as “how to’s” for troubled teenage viewers.
Natasha Murashev is the author of PsychBlog, a digital magazine focused on applied psychology.
Recently, the media has been focusing on the bad consequences of teen social networking such as cyberbullying and sexting. But is social media actually bad for teens? According to a new body of research described by Los Angeles Times, teens who are most active on social networking sites such as Facebook are actually more well-adjusted than their less-connected peers.
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The way it’s overtaken the TV newsrooms and celebrity gossip pages, you’d think that Twitter was the be-all-and-end-all of social media. But a new report from the Pew Research Center cited in this Washington Post article says otherwise: teens are pretty ambivalent about using Twitter, with only 8 percent of those online reporting regular use of the social networking tool.
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If something is considered hip, cool or trendy, there’s a good chance that someone young made it so. Subscribers of that theory will want to check out Kiwibox, a social networking site and online magazine designed for teens. The online destination allows teens to produce and share personalized content.
The beta 2.0 version has expanded member profiles, photo sharing, video streams, enhanced content and more. Read more
