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The main reason young adults in the U.S. give for visiting social network sites is to connect and communicate with others and to satisfy their curiosity about their online friends and acquaintances (Urista et al., 2009). Adolescent girls generally use them to communicate with peers and to reinforce preexisting relationships, while boys more often use the platforms to meet new people and make new friends. Boys are also more likely to identify with groups on social network sites that differ from their offline peer circles (Barker 2009; Lenhart and Madden, 2007a).Handouts
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:30, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
Teens as a demographic group are avid internet and social media users in the United States. A recent survey found that almost all U.S. teens (95%) aged 12 through 17 are online, compared to only 78% of adults. Of these teens, 80% have profiles on social media sites, as compared to only 64% of the online population aged 30 and older (Lenhart et al., 2011). According to a study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 11-to-18 year olds spend on average over one and a half hours a day using a computer and 27 minutes per day visiting social network sites, more than one fourth of their daily computer use (Rideout et al., 2010).
More girls than boys use Facebook and Twitter; female users, including teens, also
predominate on the online pinboard Pinterest. Conversely, more males use music-sharing sites
such as last.fm, as well as Reddit, a social news website known for its sometimes
misogynistic content (HuffPost Women 2012; Williams 2012).2
Various studies have suggested that men and women value and use technology
differently. A recent Forbes article reported that Facebook is currently 57% women
and that women are more active, with 8% more friends and accounting for 62% of the
sharing (Goudreau, 2010). In a study of students from four public universities, Junco,
Merson, and Salter (2010) found that women spent more time sending text messages
than men, as well as spending more time on social networking sites. Tufekci (2008)
found that in most Western cultures, social networking activities related to keeping up
with friends and family are typically dominated by females. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by StevenJames93 (talk • contribs) 17:39, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
For all that it may appear to be self-revealing, the information girls and boys display about themselves in their profiles is not necessarily accurate. Both genders report experimenting 7 with their online presentation and posting untruthful information to their profiles, such as lying about their age to make themselves older. Results from a Pew survey indicate that 56% of American adolescents with online profiles have posted false information on social media sites. Teenage boys posted fabricated information more often than girls (Lenhart and Madden, 2007b). Moreover, in a survey of more than 300 Dutch adolescents, Valkenburg et al. (2005) found gender differences in the kinds of information male and female teens misrepresented in online interactions. Boys pretended to be more macho, whereas girls pretended they were older and tried to give the impression of being more beautiful. Another study by the Girl Scouts of America found that girls who would describe themselves as "smart" or "kind" offline were more likely to post they were "fun," "funny," or "social" on social network sites, and girls with low self-esteem were somewhat more likely than girls with high self-esteem to describe themselves as "sexy" and "crazy" (Carmon, 2010). Other research points to a tendency for both adolescent girls’ and boys’ online selfpresentations to mirror their real self in terms of personality traits. Back et al. (2010) asked 236 young adults from Germany and the United States to describe their ideal self and answer a questionnaire to assess personality traits such as openness and extroversion; in addition, research observers rated the participants’ profiles. The authors found that the participants’ personality scores reflected the observer ratings better than the idealized self-descriptions. Thus while teens may consciously distort the truth to appear more attractive, they have less control over how their personality subconsciously influences their profile descriptions.
Teenage girls and boys differ to some extent in the types of content they post to their
profiles. In a study of profiles on several social networking sites, including Facebook, female
participants from the U.S. reported that they post “cute” pictures, while male participants
were more likely to share pictures and comments that they described as self-promoting and
that contained sexual content or references to alcohol (Peluchette and Karl, 2008). On a
teenage dating site, however, teen girls’ self-descriptions contained significantly more
references to sex than boys’ did (Pujazon-Zazik et al. 2012). Girls in both the U.S. and
Sweden are more likely to display friendship ties on social media, for example, by posting
photographs of themselves with their friends (Lenhart and Madden, 2007b; Sveningsson Elm,
2007). Boys, meanwhile, are more likely to orient towards technology, sports, and humor in
the information they post to their profile (Sveningsson Elm, 2007) and to share their location
and/or phone number (Lenhart and Madden, 2007b; Pujazon-Zazik et al., 2012).
Gender affects the
Lenhart, A., Madden, M., Smith, A., Purcell, K., Zickuhr, K., Rainie, L., 2011. Teens,
kindness and cruelty on social network sites. Pew Internet and American Life Project.
http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2011/PIP_Teens_Kindness_Cruelty_SNS_
Report_Nov_2011_FINAL_110711.pdf