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How Real Are Teens Online? |
Next Great Thing conducted a global youth study of social networking behavior and found two notable findings:
Older kids are more likely to contribute content online.
32% of respondents in the 14-19 age group say they create content compared to 55% of 20-29 year olds. Why? parents globally are still restricting time and access to what their kids can do online.
Not all young people represent themselves authentically.
44% of respondents say that their online identity is different than it is in real life. Some are using the web to try out various personalities on the road to adulthood, while others may be learning to manage a public self verses a private self. What we'd like to figure out next is how do online and offline identities differ, what are the drivers, and how do people make decisions about what is public and what is private.
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