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A new survey from KidSay reveals YouTube is the number one website amongst “tweens” (ages eight to eleven), despite the policy that you must be 13 or older to create an account...
About 70% of teenagers say they use social media multiple times per day (about twice as many as reported in 2012), according to a Common Sense Media survey revealed in USA Today. Teens also say social media can be distracting, with 57% saying it distracts them from doing homework, and 54% saying it distracts them from paying attention to other people.
Despite the distractions, the majority of teens still feel social media has a positive effect on their social lives. Vicky Rideout, founder of VJR Consulting in San Francisco and the author of the Common Sense report, says this is a valid discussion point, however she also adds “I do not think for a minute that the only metric we should use to measure what type of impact social media is having on teens is what they say they think it is having.”