---
"title": "Teens, Social Networks and Safety Online: An Overview"
"description": "Teens and parents are taking steps both technical and non-technical to protect themselves/teens online, including on social networking websites."
"date": "2007-02-13"
"authors":
  -
    "name": "Amanda Lenhart"
    "job_title": "Former Director of Teens and Technology Research at the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project"
    "link": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/staff/amanda-lenhart/"
"url": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/internet/2007/02/13/teens-social-networks-and-safety-online-an-overview/"
"categories":
  - "Social Media"
  - "Teens & Tech"
  - "Teens & Youth"
"tags":
  - "Safety"
  - "Social Networking"
  - "Teens"
---

# Teens, Social Networks and Safety Online: An Overview

How do teens protect themselves online? What do parents do to protect them? What are the implications for protecting teens from objectionable materials online in an age of user-generated content and convergence? What are social networks and how are teens really using them?