Security Issue of Teenagers in Social Media

Anderson, Monica & Jiang Jingjing. “Teens, Social Media and Technology 2018”.

Pew Research Center, 28th November. 2018, accessed 1st September 2020.

This article focuses on the shift on using different types of social media among the
teenagers in America, highlighting the research findings. Added on this, the article draw
attention to the impact of security issue and access in social media. One of the authors,
Monica Anderson, is an associate director of Pew Research Center, whose most of the
works has focused on the ‘impact of digital divide, the role of technology in the life of
teenagers and activism in the age of social media’. On the other hand, Jingjing is the
former research analyst. The authors found that “95% teens have access to
smartphones and 45% are in online constantly”. However, it showed elaborately how
race, class and gender intersect with the access and use of social media. The authors
have highlighted the impact of social media privacy issue by quoting some respondents.
They found that a great number of teenagers are ignorant about the impact and most
of them reported that they are insecure about the privacy issue and identify that the
media detached them from reality. This article is relevant to address the security issue
of teenagers from their point of view, which is a talk of the topic in 21st century.

Feng, Yang & Xie Wenjing. “Teens’ Concern for Privacy When Using Social Networking

Sites: An Analysis of Socialization Agents and Relationship with Privacy Protecting   

Behaviors”. Computers in Human Behavior, Vol 33, pp (153-162), April 2014, doi:
10.1016/j.chb.201401.009. Accessed 1st September 2020.

It is a research-based article on the issue of privacy concern of teenagers in social

media platform in the context of America. The authors most of the works focused on
online advertisement, marketing and its impact. From the beginning the authors tried
to clear the concept of privacy issue in technology and social media like Facebook,
having many backup references. The article showed how parents or guardians and well
use of internet can ensure and control the exposed of private information in social
media. It also discussed the vulnerabilities faced by teenagers in using social media for
the lack of understanding the media policy. This article can be well related to the
security issue as well as helpful for everyone to understand the social media platform
policy and its link with marketing.