Pew Research: How teens navigate the new world of "digital citizenship"

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Teens, Kindness and Cruelty on Social Network Sites. (Pew Research Center, 11/9/2011)

Excerpt: As social media use has become pervasive in the lives of American teens, a new study finds that 69% of the teenagers who use social networking sites say their peers are mostly kind to one another on such sites. Still, 88% of these teens say they have witnessed people being mean and cruel to another person on the sites, and 15% report that they have been the target of mean or cruel behavior on social network sites.