[In no particular order]
1. Teen Twitter use has grown significantly: 24 percent of online teens use Twitter, up from 16 percent in 2011.
2. The typical teen Facebook user has 300 friends, while the typical teen Twitter user has 79 followers.
3. Sixty percent of teen Facebook users keep their profiles private, and more report high levels of confidence in their ability to manage their settings (56 percent). Girls are more likely than boys to have a private profile (70 percent vs. 50 percent).
4. Seventy-four percent of teen social media users have deleted people from their network or friends list; 45 percent have removed their name from photos that have been tagged to identify them.
5. Teen social media users do not express a high level of concern about third-party access to their data; just 9 percent say they are “very” concerned.
6. Teens are considerably more likely to report having positive online experiences than negative ones. Fifty-two percent of online teens say they have had an experience online that made them feel good about themselves.
7. In 2006, only 2 percent of teens posted their cell phone numbers. Now, 20 percent do. Seventy-one percent post the city where they live (up from 61 percent), and 53 percent post their eMail addresses (up from 29 percent).
8. Twenty-four percent of teens post videos of themselves.
9. Boys are significantly more likely to share their phone numbers than girls (26 percent vs. 14percent).
10. African-American teens are much less likely to disclose their real names on a social media profile (95 percent of white teens do this vs. 77 percent of African-American teens).
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