social media metrics

1. Teens & Social Media
Digital Lifestyle

2. ad·o·les·cence
1
: the state or process of growing up
2
: the period of life from puberty to maturity terminating legally at the age of majority
3
: a stage of development (as of a language or culture) prior to maturity

3. Communications Media
● Maturity
● Rites of passage
● Opens private exchanges for the entire public
to view
● Has become a part of modern adolescence

4. Affects
● Leads to anxiety
● Need for everything NOW
● Estrangement from family and friends

5. Positives
● Leads to important connections
● Helps teach experience through the Web
● Shows accomplishments
● Helps get noticed
● Helps communication
● Helps individuals speak out

6. Today‘s generation is the first generation to
have gone through entire teen years with
Facebook and other social networking sites at
their fingerprints

7. ● Teens are avid, daily users
● Most would say social media interferes with
face-to-face communication but still overall
prefer it
● Some teens wish they could disconnect more
often but are worried too much about be far
from communication and ‘in the know’

8. Conclusion
For today;s generation, in youth and into
maturity, social media is strictly woven into
their lives.
More and more there is positive backlash to
social media
Still many of the same worries occur

9. A Few Results from a survey taken by Knowledge
Networks