Social networking sites and contact risks among Flemish youth

Vandoninck, Sofie; d’Haenens, Leen; Cock, Rozane De; Navarrete, Veronica Donoso

doi:10.1177/0907568211406456

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“…Girls post more pictures, while boys give more contact information. These findings were confirmed in a survey research involving Flemish teenagers [7]. Additionally, it was found there are no differences related to users being enrolled in different education forms in sharing general descriptive information, but pupils enrolled in vocational education and technical education share more contact information than those enrolled in general education [7].…”

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How Safe Do Teenagers Behave on Facebook? An Observational Study

2014

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The substantial use of social network sites by teenagers has raised concerns about privacy and security. Previous research about behavior on social network sites was mostly based on surveys and interviews. Observational research overcomes problems inherent to this research method, for example social desirability. However, existing observational research mostly focuses on public profiles of young adults. Therefore, the current observation-study includes 1050 public and non-public Facebook-profiles of teenagers (13–18) to investigate (1) what kind of information teenagers post on their profile, (2) to what extent they protect this information using privacy-settings and (3) how much risky information they have on their profile. It was found that young people mostly post pictures, interests and some basic personal information on their profile. Some of them manage their privacy-settings as such that this information is reserved for friends' eyes only, but a lot of information is accessible on the friends-of-friends' pages. Although general risk scores are rather low, more detailed analyses show that teenagers nevertheless post a significant amount of risky information. Moreover, older teenagers and girls post more (risky) information while there are no differences in applying privacy settings. We found no differences in the Facebook behavior of teenagers enrolled in different education forms. Implications of these results are discussed.

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confidence: 61%

How Safe Do Teenagers Behave on Facebook? An Observational Study

2014

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“…Trabajos como los de Aranda et al (2009), Bringué y Sádaba (2011, Garmendia et al (2011) Vandoninck et al (2012) encontraron que los adolescentes que viven en hogares de menores ingresos se enfrentan a más riesgos, sin embargo, la incidencia del estatus socioeconómico sobre los riesgos online de los menores ha sido escasamente analizada.…”

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Los riesgos de los adolescentes en Internet: los menores como actores y víctimas de los peligros de Internet

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Jiménez

2014

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El uso intensivo de Internet entre los adolescentes ha aumentado la preocupación por los riesgos que enfrentan en el ciberespacio. El objetivo de este estudio es diagnosticar los riesgos que enfrentan los adolescentes españoles en Internet y determinar la influencia de variables como la edad, el sexo y la titularidad de la escuela a la que asisten los menores. Método. El estudio se basa en una encuesta nacional representativa aplicada a 2.077 adolescentes. La encuesta explora los riesgos que enfrentan los menores en el ciberespacio: contenido inapropiado, contacto con extraños, pérdida de privacidad, ciberacoso, uso problemático de Internet o adicción a Internet y las prácticas de seguridad adoptadas por los adolescentes. Resultados y conclusiones. La alta confianza de los jóvenes coexiste con una alta exposición involuntaria a contenido inapropiado en línea (pornografía, violencia, promoción del consumo de alcohol y drogas y trastornos alimentarios), junto con la normalización de diversas formas de ciberacoso. Los resultados confirman que existe un porcentaje importante de adolescentes que admiten pasar un tiempo excesivo en Internet y ser adictos a determinados servicios de Internet.

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“…Notably, the EU KidsOnline Project has identified content (pornography, violence), contact (cyberbullying, grooming), privacy and commercial risks (Livingstone and Haddon 2008). Others have called attention to the potential dangers of making new contacts online (Vandonick et al 2012), in particular for young people with mental health problems or those lacking good relationships with their peers and parents (Osvaldsson 2011). However, this work has also emphasised that measuring such harms is very difficult and that: 'protection must be balanced against enabling children's rights, pleasures and opportunities, including the opportunities for risk-taking' (Livingstone, Haddon, and Görzig 2012, 3).…”

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Digital technologies, children and young people's relationships and self-care

Wilson

2015

Children's Geographies

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Social networking sites and contact risks among Flemish youth

Cited by 29 publications

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How Safe Do Teenagers Behave on Facebook? An Observational Study

How Safe Do Teenagers Behave on Facebook? An Observational Study

Los riesgos de los adolescentes en Internet: los menores como actores y víctimas de los peligros de Internet

Digital technologies, children and young people's relationships and self-care

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