Social Networking and Kids

Common Sense Media has released the results of a national poll of teens and parents on social networking behaviors. The poll results showed that kids increasingly connect with friends, classmates and people with similar interests through social networks—and that parents are out of the loop.
Among the poll’s key findings:
- 22% of teens check social networking sites more than 10 times a day, while only 4% of parents believe kids are checking that much
- 51% percent of teens check social networking sites more than once a day, while only 23% of parents say their kids check more than once a day
- 28% have shared personal information that they normally wouldn’t have shared in public
- 25% have shared a profile with a false identity
- 39% have posted something they regretted
- 26% have pretended to be someone else online
- 54% have joined an online community or Facebook/MySpace group in support of a cause
- 34% have volunteered for a campaign, nonprofit or charity

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/teen-social-media