Online Privacy and Teens: Help Them Care if They Don’t

Before you read this article, stop and picture yourself as a 16 year old.  Now that you’ve recovered from the trauma of that, think about this question: what thoughts consumed your time – your favorite band, your first car, your first love, your first job, your first password?  Certainly not the latter, and you most likely weren’t thinking about online privacy issues.

It’s no surprise then that today’s teens don’t think about them much either, although they do more than most of us ever had to.  The Pew Research Center recently conducted a survey entitled Teens, Social Media, and Privacy and found a variety of interesting statistics.

Teens share more about themselves on social media sites than they did according to the previous survey from 2006.  A few of the more significant ones:

• 91% post a photo of themselves (up from 79%)
• 71% post their school name (up from 49%)

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Posted in Online Privacy, Social Media Privacy by Identity Theft Speaker John Sileo.
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