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Some useful tips not just for teenagers, but for any users of social media looking to protect their privacy and online. I particularly liked the tip on modeling proper social media use for teens. The district I am in has blocked all social media sites (even Pinterest!) and so the students use VPNs to get around the blocks instead of allowing teachers and others to realistically demonstrate how to navigate social media sites in a healthy way it becomes something that is forbidden to be on.

This white paper examines the effect of social media as it outpaces society's ability to creates rules of behavior, designed to moderate how people interact with social media and each other.

Koohang, Paliszkiewicz, & Goluchowski stress the importance of privacy and trust when using social media. Through their research model, social media privacy concerns, or SMPC were focused on. These SMPCs were collection, secondary usage, errors, improper access, control and awareness of trust and risk regarding users. They found that users with greater privacy concerns were less likely to trust social media platforms with their personal information. Users with higher privacy concerns also felt it more risky to disclose more personal information to the platform.

24% of teens go online "almost constantly," facilitated by the widespread availability of smartphones. Aided by the convenience and constant access provided by mobile devices, especially smartphones, 92% of teens report going online daily - including 24% who say they go online "almost constantly," according to a new study from Pew Research Center.

2015 Pew Research Center report on teen use of social media. Reporting includes no use of smartphones and other devices have facilitated teens being constantly online - 24% according to the report. Also, girls tend to use social media platforms more and boys focus more time on playing video games.

In discussing personas and Facebook it was noted, "Social networking sites create relationships of access. A friendship on Facebook is not as much about intimacy as about giving others a role in your identity "performances." This article examines the place virtual identities have in social media

Internet, social media and mobile phone usage has show increases of 4 to 13 percent in 2018 based upon their global digital suite of reports. This article is a barrage of data sets on internet usage broken down into a variety of specific areas. Comparisons globally show significant universal increases in usage. Part of their study shows older users joining social media. Facebook shows users aged 65 and above has increased by almost 20 percent in the last 12 months.

This article examines the ways people use social media to project themselves to world and in many way, recreate themselves as they wish they could be. Also examined is the blurring between public and private lives and how the very definition of privacy has been changed.

This research paper seeks to relationship between social media and expressions of empathy. Focused primary on Facebook users, the study wanted to determine the amount of a person's positive outlook and the likelihood they would spend time on Facebook, interacting with other people.

Using the results of interviews conducted with twenty-two 14 - 18 year olds​, this study looks at how adolescents use social media platforms to regulate emotions. Findings include that adolescents do us different platforms to share different emotions. In the case of the subjects in this study Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram were used to share positive emotions and Messenger and Twitter to share negative emotions.

Face-to-face social skills are still needed

How educational use of social media can violate student privacy

In this study, Meier, Schäwel, & Krämer (2020), examine the length of privacy policies found on social media platforms. Privacy policies give users the opportunity to inform themselves of the many ways their personal information may be used. Unfortunately, the lengthy and difficult-to-read are often skipped or unread by users. What if we were to shorten these policies? Would it make a difference? Meier, Schäwel, & Krämer determined that users that read a shorter policy did spend more time per word, trying to understand the ins and outs of the policy's text because it was shorter. Meier, Schäwel, & Krämer's findings showed that more users were engaged in the shorter policies. Policy length, as well as the inclusion of more user-friendly language will encourage users to be more inclined to understand situational privacy problems.

"While language learning and place-based learning linked to history, geography, sociology, and social studies are already available for such devices, the next developments are focused on using wearable devices linked to smartphones for self-assessment linked to a much wider range of learning. Imagine being a student four weeks away from final examinations in chemistry. What if your Apple Watch or smartphone asked you chemistry questions related to your course of study twice a day, every day for these four weeks? The daily feedback could help you focus review on topics you are weak in and reinforce your mastery of topics in which you are strong. These adaptive assessments are becoming more widely used and can be linked to open educational resources on the specific topics the student needs to master so as to aid their learning."

This article examines technology trends in higher education and how they impact student habits and preferences in college libraries. A study was conducted among students at the Sam Houston State University in East Texas to investigate their usage of electronic devices and technologies such as text messaging, Twitter, podcasts, Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds, and social networks. Results indicate that students do wish that basic library services were available through the most popular social networking sites and Internet technologies. Topics include a review of literature consulted, methods used, and the demographics of the student body researched. [Abstract from ESC Academic Search Complete database] Link: http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.library.esc.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=7&sid=32d26eef-5aab-4af2-ad1a-c9624344797d%40sessionmgr115&hid=126&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=61993848&db=a9h Cassidy, E. D., Britsch, J., Griffin, G., Manolovitz, T., Shen, L., & Turney, L. (2011). Higher Education and Emerging Technologies: Student Usage, Preferences, and Lessons for Library Services. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 50(4), 380-391.

The article looks at how social media sites such as Facebook have changed the way teenagers view privacy. The authors argue that teenagers do care about privacy and have developed mechanisms that allow them to maintain their privacy while still participating in online environments. They also suggest that our understanding of online privacy should shift from an individual context to incorporate a "networked context".