While Facebook and Twitter are popular sites for making friends, teens have also seen social media’s unfriendly side -- 88% of them report having witnessed mean or cruel behaviour, according to a new study.
About 12% of the teenagers said they saw this type of behaviour online “frequently,” while 29% said they observed it “sometimes,” said the report by the Pew Research Center, which surveyed 799 teens between the ages of 12 and 17. At the same time, 69% of the teens said their peers are mostly kind on social-networking sites, the research said. About 95% of all American teens between the ages of 12 and 17 use the Internet, with 80% of them using socialmedia sites, the report said.
“Most of the time, these are pleasant places to be,” Amanda Lenhart, a senior researcher and lead author of the report, said in an interview.
“But there are some dark moments popping up once a while. For a subset of teens, the world of social media presents a climate of drama and mean be.
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