11. While those with Facebook profiles most often choose private settings, Twitter users, by contrast, are much more likely to have a public account. Sixty-four percent of teens with Twitter accounts say that their tweets are public, while 24 percent say their tweets are private.
12. Ninety-eight percent of Facebook-using teens are friends with people they know from school. Seventy percent are friends with their parents. Only 30 percent have teachers or coaches as friends in their network.
13. Girls are more likely than boys to be Facebook friends with coaches or teachers (37 percent vs. 23 percent).
14. African-American youth are nearly twice as likely as whites to be Facebook friends with celebrities, athletes, or musicians (48 percent vs. 25 percent).
15. Fifty-eight percent of teen social media users say they share inside jokes or cloak their messages in some way.
16. Insights from PEW focus groups suggest some teens may not have a good sense of whether the information they share on a social media site is being used by third parties.
17. One in six online teens say they have been contacted by someone they did not know in a way that made them feel scared or uncomfortable.
18. Only 8 percent of teens have posted something online, or engaged in online activities, that caused problems for them or a family member, or got them in trouble at school
19. More than half (57 percent) of internet-using teens have decided not to post content online over reputation concerns
20. Close to one in three online teens say they have received online advertising that was clearly inappropriate for their age.
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