• In early 2014, the University of Ottawa’s female student council president was targeted in an online exchange between some of her male colleagues (Shariff et al., 2015, p. 284)

• Reid Sagehorn, a high school senior, was suspended and threatened with expulsion from Rogers High School in Minnesota in late January for his two-word tweet response posted on the Rogers Confessions website to the question, “Did he ever make out” with a 28-year-old teacher at the school. His answer, “Actually, yeah.” (Kulick, 2014, p. 1)
  

• Girls and older teens continue to be the heaviest users of social media sites. Among teen girls who are social media users, 48% say they visit social networking sites several times per day, compared with 36% of teen boys. Looking at younger teens ages 12-13, 26% use the sites several times per day, while nearly twice as many teens ages 14-17 (47%) use the sites that often (Madden et al., 2013, p. 22) 

• In Florida, two girls, ages 12 and 14, were arrested and charged with a felong in the suicide death of a 12 year-old classmate. Her death is alleged to have resulted from their cyber-bullying (Kulick, 2014, p. 1). 

• Most teen social media users, often minors, say they aren’t very concerned about third-party access to their data (Madden et al., 2013, p. 56). 

• The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) even as it is thought of today as a law built to safeguard children’s physical well-being, began as an attempt to protect children p e wi n t er n e t.o r g 57 under 13 from having their personal information collected for business purposes without their parent’s permission (Madden et al., 2013, p. 56).

• Few teens report a high level of concern that some of the information they share on social networking sites might be accessed by third parties like advertisers or businesses without their knowledge; 31% say that they are “somewhat” concerned, while just 9% say that they are “very” concerned. 39 Another 60% in total report that they are “not too” concerned (38%) or “not at all” concerned (22%). Younger teen social media users ages 12-13 are considerably more likely than older teens (14-17) to say that they are “very concerned” about third party access to the information they share (17% vs. 6%). Girls and boys report the same levels of concern (Madden et al., 2013, p. 57).
  

• Under, Pennsylvania's sexting law,  it is a crime for a minor (anyone between the ages of 12 to 18) to send an electronic message with a nude picture of themselves or anyone else between the ages of 12 and 18 (Kulick, 2014, p. 1).

Kulick, A. (2014, July 24). What teens need to know about social media and the law. Retrieved February 23, 2018, from http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/healthy_kids/What-teens-need-to-know-about-social-media-and-the-law.html

Madden, M., Lenhart, A., Cortesi, S., Gasser, U., Duggan, M., Smith, A., & Beaton, M. (2013, May 1). Teens, social media, and privacy. Retrieved February 23, 2018, from http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2013/05/PIP_TeensSocialMediaandPrivacy_PDF.pdf

Shariff, S., & DeMartini, A. (2015). Defining the legal lines: eGirls and intimate images. In Bailey J. & Steeves V. (Eds.), EGirls, eCitizens: Putting Technology, Theory and Policy into Dialogue with Girls’ and Young Women’s Voices (pp. 281-306). University of Ottawa Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt15nmj7f.15