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Social Media, Social Lives: How Teens View Their Digital Lives

Organization: 
Common Sense Media
Publisher: 
Common Sense Media
Date Published: 
August, 2012

This report provides parents, educators, health organizations, and policymakers with data on children's use of media and technology and the impact it has on physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development. Topics include face-to-face communication, social and digital communication, text messaging, social networking, Twitter, mobile communication, social networking and social-emotional well-being, social media and relationships, online photos, hate speech online, addiction and the desire to unplug, and social networking and depression.

Download a copy of Social Media, Social Lives: How Teens View Their Digital Lives (PDF, 2.23 MB) from the Common Sense Media Web site.