The document discusses a study on K-12 students' use of social media profiles like Facebook. Some key findings: - 82% of participants had children under 14 when they created their first social media profile. 59% were ages 11-14. - 92% of children had a Facebook profile, with Skype being the second most common at 29%. - Only 13% of parents reported monitoring their child's social media use "every step", while 33% monitored "most of the time". - The number of active Facebook users grew from 845 million to over 901 million between February and April 2012, indicating the need for an updated study on students' social media usage.

1. What Age’s Are K-12 Students
Actively Using Facebook?
Adalheidur Reed M.S.
Dr. Gerald Knezek.

2. Background
• Facebook was created in February 2004 as a
Harvard only online social networking site but
opened its site to the public in 2006
(Sheldon, 2008a; Urista, Dong, & Day, 2009).
• What do parents and children know about
using online social media profiles (OSMP)?

3. The Study Recruiting Participants
• Participants where recruited using social
media the total number of participants in the
online survey where 142 From Iceland and the
US.
– Facebook
– Twitter
– Linkedin

4. Safety Blocked & Banned
• OSMP use is blocked and banned from school
servers does that help educating students
proper use.
• Is making things banned, blocked or illegal aid
in solving the privacy dangers and problems
• Does educating and teaching proper best
practice use do more?

5. Active Users On Facebook
• Today 6 years after opening to the general public there
are 901 million active Facebook users
(Wikipedia, 2012). Who is educating the general public
in OSMP use?
• How many of the 901 Million active users are children
under 18?
• May 2012 CEO of Facebook Mark Zeckerburg thinks
that it is time that the current 13 year old age limit be
lifted because children are able to learn from using
Facebook (MSNNow, 2012).

6. Best Practice?
• Schools are trying to implement their own
OSMP with sites like Edmundo, but with little
to no buy in from students outside of the
school walls where they are being forced to
use it.
• Tomorrow is not the time to implement
Facebook OSMP into K-12 Education the time
is Yesterday!

7. How old was your Child when their
first social media profile was created?
• A total of 82% participants out of 116 that
responded had children under the age of 14
when their ONSP was created.
# Answer Response %
1 1-5 9 8%
2 6-10 28 24%
3 11-14 68 59%
4 15-18 21 18%

8. What type of online media profile
does your child have?
• 92% reported their children used Facebook or
103 out of 112 responding to this item, Skype
was a distant second with 29%.
# Answer Response %
1 Facebook 103 92%
2 MySpace 7 6%
3 Twitter 12 11%
Yahoo
4 12 11%
Messenger
5 Windows Live 19 17%
6 Skype 33 29%
7 Other 15 13%

9. What Privacy Level’s
• What type of interaction are students
participating while when engaging in the use
of OSMP’s and is it safe, who is navigating
their OSMP journey and who is protecting
them while they travel the OSMP
highway, what is their privacy level set to.

10. Monitoring
• When asked “Do you monitor your child-
children while they engage in using online
social media?” Only 13% answered “Yes Every
Step”.
# Answer Response %
Yes Every
1 15 13%
Step
Most Of the
2 37 33%
time
3 Pretty Much 34 30%
4 Not Much 25 22%
5 Not At All 1 1%
Total 112 100%

11. Conclusion
• April, 2012 the active users of Facebook grew from 845
million in February to over 901 million
(Wikipedia, 2012), this growth seems to indicate the
need for an updated larger version of this study.
• Are students buying into school issued OSMP sites like
Edmodo that the schools are attempting to use to
safely teach OSMP interaction, are students using
Edmondo outside of the school walls?

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13. Questions