(Newswire.net — May 24, 2013) Washington D.C. — A recent surver conducted by Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project found that teens are gravitating towards using Twitter as their preferred social media due to too much drama on Facebook.
Twitter is becoming a boom as a social media platform for teens who say that there are to many adults and to much drama on Facebook.
Teens told researchers there were too many adults on Facebook and too much sharing of teenage angst and inane details like what a friend ate for dinner.
According to the published study about online behavior more teens are trying to protect their online reputations.
“The key is that there are fewer adults, fewer parents and just simply less complexity,” said Amanda Lenhart of the Pew Research Center, one of the study’s authors. “They still have their Facebook profiles, but they spend less time on them and move to places like Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr.”
The survey found that 94 percent of the teens who use social media have a Facebook profile and 26 percent where users of Twitter. This was more than double of a similar poll conducted a year earlier.
“Facebook just really seems to have more drama,” said 16-year-old Jaime Esquivel, a junior at C.D. Hylton High School in Woodbridge, Va., in an interview.
A concerning factor for parents is that most tweets are public which means anyone on Twitter can see what they publish. Only about one-quarter said they keep their tweet private.
Parry Aftab, an attorney and online child safety advocate, says “kids seem to be exercising more caution about their posts. They are sharing their life dbt they tend to be sharing personal stuff far better than they ever did before.”
The researchers surveyed 802 parents and their 802 teens. The poll was conducted between July 26 and September 30, 2012, on landline and cell phones. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
Wikipedia: Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as “tweets”.
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and by July, the social networking site was launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million registered users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.
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