This presentation by Lee Rainie to The Point Smart / Click Safe Summit pulls together Pew Internet Project research about teenagers' online activities, their behavior on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, and their Web 2.0 content creation activities. It covers the threats posed by cyberbullying, and stranger contact on the internet. and suggests that a new kind of competence we call "self literacy" is useful in the digital age. 6/10/2008

1. Teenagers’ online safety and literacy Lee Rainie – Director, Pew Internet Project Point Smart / Click Safe Summit June 10, 2008

4. 2000 73% of teens use internet ~8% with broadband at home <30% own a cell phone ?? connect to internet wirelessly = slow and stationary connections 2008 94% of teens use internet 73% with broadband at home 71% own a cell phone ~70% connect to internet wirelessly = fast and mobile connections Status update: The internet then and now

5. Teen use of the internet intensifies

12. Content creation 26% of online teens say they remix content they find online into their own artistic creations ---- 11% of online adults have done this

16. Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project Teen/Parent Survey on Writing, September-November 2007. Margin of error is ±5%. 16% Send email 23% Send messages through a social networking site 29% Send instant messages 35% Talk on a landline or home phone 35% Talk on a cell phone 36% Send text messages on cell phone 39% Spend time in person outside of school All teens (n=700) % of teens who engage in each activity every day Daily Social Communication Choices

18. Kaiser Family Foundation, Generation M, March 2005

19. Kaiser Family Foundation, Generation M, March 2005