Users

Who Uses?

• Teen reports own Facebook use >4x a week (Robson, 2009, p. 2)
• 70% of seventh graders have accounts (Fodeman & Monroe, 2009, p. 36)

Predictors of Usage

• Youth with more experience and autonomy (Hargittai, 2007).
• Students with higher socioeconomic status and higher levels of education (Hargittai, 2007).

 

 Motivations for Use

• Self display and self worth

• Real life friends