Teens, Kindness and Cruelty on Social Network Sites
Pew Research Center, November 9, 2011
By Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden, Aaron Smith, Kristen Purcell, Kathryn Zickuhr and Lee Rainie
Social media use has become so pervasive in the lives of American teens that having a presence on a social network site is almost synonymous with being online. Fully 95 percent of all teens ages 12-17 are now online and 80 percent of those online teens are users of social media sites. Many log on daily to their social network pages and these have become spaces where much of the social activity of teen life is echoed and amplified -- in both good and bad ways.
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