This week, another shocking study about young people and social media was published. Facebook is said to be making teenagers addicted to alcohol. Norton conducted a study on online bullying, which showed that many parents have no idea what their children are actually doing online. And finally: we expect students to be completely at home on the internet, but research shows that students do not understand Google at all.
On August 29th, this headline appears on Nu.nl . Too bad the journalist from Nu.nl didn't read the research that well and thus once again puts young people and social media in a negative light. So below is the real research.
Columbia University recently conducted research into the lifestyle of abouticeland phone number list 1000 teenagers between the ages of 12 and 17 and about 500 parents. On a normal day, about 70% of the teenagers surveyed spend between 2 minutes and hours on a social network. 30% of the teenagers spend no time at all on these networks. Being online on a social media website can increase the chance of using drugs or alcohol. Or starting to smoke.