View the latest free infographic from uKnowKids (www.uknowkids.com). This infographic speaks to the state of privacy, personal information and sharing habits of your teen (and yourself) on the Internet! Feel free to share with friends and family or repost on your own blog or social media sites. To download the original infographic, please visit http://updates.uknowkids.com/teens-social-media-and-privacy-infographic.

1. References:
Pew Internet & American Life Project
– www.pewinternet.org
The Digital Center Report
– digitalcenter.org
Graphic Designer
Brigit Gilbert
TEENS,
PRIVACY
SOCIAL MEDIA,SOCIAL MEDIA,
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91%
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53%
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Let’s face it, your kids are
using social media. Whether
it’s for educational purposes,
or just for fun, their personal
information may be accessible
by just about anyone, anytime.
The latest statistics have
yielded shocking results about
our nation’s teens and adults
and their online activities.
ON SOCIAL MEDIA
WEBSITES:
2006
2012
posta
photo
ofthem
selves
posttheir
schoolnam
e
postthe
city
where
theylive
posttheir
em
ailaddress
posttheir
cellnum
ber
!!
post their
real name
92% 82% 62% 24%
post their
birthday
post videos
of themselves
post their
relationship status !!
TRUST
INTERNET
have “some” to
“a lot” of trust
in the internet
FROM 45%
IN 201050%
1in4
!!16% of teen social media users have set up their profile
to automatically include their location in posts
of Facebook-using teens
are friends with people
they know from school
98% 91% 89% 76% 70%
are Facebook friends
with their parents
are Facebook friends
with brothers & sisters
are connected to friends
who do not attend
the same school
of teen Facebook users are
friends with members of
their extended family
!!
33% 30% 30%
are Facebook friends
with other people they
haven’t met in person
have celebrities,
musicians or athletes
in their network
have teachers or
coaches as friends
in their network
FACEBOOK: HOW VISIBLE
ARE YOUR TEENS ONLINE?
Girls who use
Facebook are more likely
than boys to have a private
(friends only) profile
(70% vs. 50%)
By contrast, boys are more
likely than girls to have
a fully public profile that
everyone can see
(20% vs. 8%)
64% of teens with Twitter
accounts say that their
tweets are public
64%
TWITTER: MORE
USAGE, LESS PRIVACY?
Teen Twitter use has grown
significantly: 24% of online teens
use Twitter, up from 16% in 2011
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20
15
10
5
0
The typical (median) teen Facebook
user has 300 friends, while the typical
teen Twitter user has 79 followers
16%
24%
300
79
Teen Facebook users with more
than 600 friends in their network are
much more likely than those with
smaller networks to be Facebook
friends with peers who don’t attend
their own school, or with people
they have never met in person!
While boys and girls are equally likely
to say their accounts are public, boys
are significantly more likely than girls
to say that they don’t know (21% of
boys who have Twitter accounts
report this, compared with 5% of girls)
DELETE
59% have deleted or edited
something that they posted in the past
53% have deleted comments
from others on their profile or account
45% have removed their name from photos
that have been tagged to identify them
31% have deleted or deactivated
an entire profile or account
19% have posted updates, comments, photos,
or videos that they later regretted sharing
74% of teen social media users have deleted
people from their network or friends’list
58% have blocked people on social media sites
60% of teen Facebook users keep their profiles
private, and most report high levels of confidence
in their ability to manage their settings
More than half (56%) of teen Facebook users say it’s
“not difficult at all”to manage the privacy controls on
their Facebook profile, while one in three (33%) say it’s
“not too difficult”
Only 5% of teen Facebook users say
they limit what their parents can see.
MANAGE
Among teens who have a Facebook account, only 18%
say that they limit what certain friends can see on
their profile. The vast majority (81%) say that all of
their friends see the same thing on their profile
!! High-risk behavior for teens using social media
KEEP IT PRIVATE
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For more information about how to protect your kids online, visit:
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Users Weigh In
in the
FROM 66%
IN 2010
FROM 48%
IN 2010
percent of people
who worry about
what companies
monitor online 57
91%of users express
some level of
concern about
their privacy
online due to
companies that
can track
online behavior
48%are wary of their
privacy when
shopping online
FROM 38%
IN 2010
are concerned
the government
monitors their
internet use
43%
are very to extremely
concerned about their privacy
on social networking websites68%
OVER
have had
their privacy
violated online