{"id":1392983,"date":"2023-08-09T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1392983"},"modified":"2023-08-09T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T10:45:00","slug":"most-girls-get-unsolicited-messages-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/most-girls-get-unsolicited-messages-on-social-media\/1392983\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Girls Get Unsolicited Messages On Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Most Girls Get Unsolicited Messages On Social Media<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><strong>More than half of 11-15 year old girls using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/1882\/instagram\/#topicOverview\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and Snapchat in the United States have been contacted by strangers in a way that made them feel uncomfortable<\/strong>, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonsensemedia.org\/sites\/default\/files\/research\/report\/how-girls-really-feel-about-social-media-researchreport_web_final_2.pdf\">report<\/a>\u00a0by Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization that reviews and provides ratings for media and technology in order to safeguard children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-08-08_15-05-47.jpg?itok=SARXWQZV\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/30551\/share-of-teen-girl-social-media-users-contacted-by-stranger\/\">as Statista&#8217;s Anna Fleck reports,<\/a> some 48 percent of teen girls in the U.S. said they had been sent unsolicited messages over a messaging app, as 46 percent were contacted over TikTok and 30 percent on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/2019\/youtube\/#topicOverview\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/30551\/share-of-teen-girl-social-media-users-contacted-by-stranger\/\" title=\"Infographic: Most Girls Get Unsolicited Messages on Social Media | Statista\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The report also reveals figures on how <strong>nearly half (45 percent) of girls who use\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/6077\/tiktok\/#topicOverview\">TikTok<\/a>\u00a0say they feel \u201caddicted\u201d to the platform<\/strong> or use it more than intended at least weekly.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the most \u201caddictive\u201d, or the highest share of users who reported using it more than intended at least weekly, the order is as follows: Snapchat (37 percent), YouTube (34 percent), Instagram (33 percent) and then Messaging apps (30 percent).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Perceptions among teenage girls on how different social media features affect their wellbeing were mixed. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two features that were most widely seen as having a negative impact were location sharing (45 percent said it was negative) and public accounts (33 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Recommended videos (49 percent) and notifications features (41 percent) were seen as more positive overall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Wed, 08\/09\/2023 &#8211; 02:45<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/technology\/most-girls-get-unsolicited-messages-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/technology\/most-girls-get-unsolicited-messages-social-media<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Girls Get Unsolicited Messages On Social Media More than half of 11-15 year old girls using\u00a0Instagram\u00a0and Snapchat in the United States have been contacted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-5Qnt","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}