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SOCIAL MEDIA STATISTICS
15% of Americans have
never checked their social networking privacy and security account
settings. (National Cyber
Security Alliane (NCSA)-MacAfee Online Safety Study, 2011)
69% of social media-using
teens think that peers are mostly kind to each other on social networking
sites, however, 88% of teens have seen someone be mean or curel to another
person on a social networking site. (Pew Research Center, FOSI, Cable in the Classroom, 2011)
12% of teens say they witnessed cruel behavior "frequently" on social networking sites. (Pew Research Center, FOSI, Cable in the Classroom, 2011)
15% of social media-using teens say they have been the target of online meanness. (Pew Research Center, FOSI, Cable in the Classroom, 2011ial Social Media is now the number one activity on the web 93 % of teen Facebook users share their real name (PEW Research Center, 2013)
92% of teen Facebook users share pictures of themselves(PEW Research Center, 2013) 21% of teen Facebook users share their personal cell phone number (PEW Research Center, 2013) 25% of teen Facebook users share videos of themselves (PEW Reseach Center, 2013)
65% of social media-using teens have had an experience on a social networking site that made them feel good about themselves. (Pew Research Center, FOSI, Cable in the Classroom, 2011)
58% of social media-using teens have felt closer to another person because of an experience on a social networking site. (Pew Research Center, FOSI, Cable in the Classroom, 2011)
2,332 arrests for Internet sex crimes against minors involved social networking sites (Journal of Adolescent Health, 2010) Cases involving social networking sites (SNS) were more likely to result in a face-to-face meeting. This was true of 81% of SNS-involved cases and true of 55% of non-SNS cases(Journal of Adolescent Health, 2010)
41% of social media-using teens have experienced at least one negative outcome as a result of using a social networking site. (Pew Research Center, FOSI, Cable in the Classroom, 2011)
25% have had an experience that led to a face-to-face argument or confrontation. 22% have had an experience that ended their friendship with someone.
13% have had an experience that caused a problem with their parents. 8% have gotten into a physical fight with someone else because of something that happened on a social networking site.
6% have gotten in trouble at school because of an experience on a social networking site.
29% of Internet sex crime
relationships were initiated on a social networking site. (Journal of Adolescent Health 27,
2010)
In 26% of online sex
crimes against minors, offenders disseminated information and/or picutres of
the victim through the victim's personal social networking site. (Journal of Adolescent Health 47,
2010)
33% of of all
Internet-initiated sex crimes involved social networking sites. (Journal of Adolescent Health 47,
2010)
26% of Americans say they are sharing more information on social networks today than one year ago. (National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA)-MacAfee Online Safety Study, 2011)
24% of Americans say they
are not at all confident in their ability to use privacy settings. (National Cyber Security Alliance
(NCSA)-MacAfee Online Safety Study, 2011)
In half of all sex crimes against a minor involving a social networking site, the social networking site was used to initiate the relationship. (Journal of Adolescent Health 47, 2010)
Cases of Internet sex crimes against children involving social networking sites were more likely to result in a face-to-face meeting. This was true of 81% of Internet-initiated crimes involving a social networking site. (Journal of Adolescent Health 27, 2010)
38% of Facebook users in the last year were under the age of 13. (Consumer Reports, June 2011)
More than 25% of Facebook
users last year were under the age of 10. (Consumer Reports, June 2011)
Only 18% of parents with
children under 10 on Facebook are actually "friends" with their child
on the site. (Consumer Reports, June
2011)
62% of parents of teens ages 13-14 are "friends" with their child are Facebook. (Consumer Reports, June 2011)
Only 10% of parents of
children aged 10 and under had frank talks about appropriate online behavior
and threats.(Consumer Reports, June
2011) Of the active adult users of Facebook, 66% reported they did not know privacy controls existed on Facebook and/or they did not know how to use the privacy controls. (Consumer Reports, June 2011)
85% of parents with
teenage children ages 13-17 report that their child has a social networking
site. (American Osteopathic
Association, 2011)
22% of teenagers log on
to their facorite social media site more than 10 times a day. (Gwenn Schurgin O'Keeffe, Kathleen
Clarke-Pearson and COUNCIL ON COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA, March 2011)
More than 50% of adolescents log
on to a social media site more than once a day. (Gwenn Schurgin O'Keeffe, Kathleen
Clark-Pearson and COUNCIL ON COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA, March 2011)
29% of Internet sex crime
relationships were initiated on a social networking site. (Journal of Adolescent Health 47,
2010) 72% of teens have a social networking profile and nearly half (47%) have a public profile viewable by anyone.
Frequently children in 4th-6th grade levels engage in social networking activities. In the process they post personal, potentially exploitable, information about themselves online. Specifically, and within the last school year: 16% posted personal interests online, 15% posted information about their physical activities and 20% gave out their real name. In addition, 5% posted information about their school, 6% posted their home address, 6% posted their phone number and 9% posted pictures of themselves.
Some 23 percent of teen profile creators say it would be "pretty easy" for someone to find out who they are from the information posted to their profile, and 40 percent of teens with profiles online think that it would be hard for someone to find out who they are from their profile, but that they could eventually be found online. Another 36 percent say they think it would be "very difficult" for someone to identify them from their online profile.
Teens often include the following information on their social networking profiles o Real age (50%) o Photos of themselves (62%) o City they live in (41%) o School name/location (45%) o Videos of friends (16%)
o Videos of themselves (14%) o Their cell phone number (14%) o Places where they typically go (9%) 59% of teens perceive that public blogs or social networking sites are unsafe
76% of teens are at least somewhat concerned that posting information publicly could negatively impact future. 26% of teens know someone something bad has happened to because of information or photos posted online.
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