KOTA-TV (ABC-Rapid City, SD): “Children First: Kids say parents are embarrassing”
The Edmonton Journal: “Most teens will ‘friend’ their parents, study says”
The New York Post: “Friending mom & dad”
WCPO-TV (ABC-Cincinnati): “Facebook makes parents and children friends”
Portfolio.com: “Friends of the Family”
The Online Mom.com: “Teens mixed when it comes to “friending” parents online”
Online Social Media.com: “Facebook Relationships: Natural for parents & teens”
The Parents Zone.com: “Facebook and the Parent-Teen Relationship”
The Grand Island Independent: “Welcoming snow, friending parents, treating humans”
ParentDish.com: “You’re Kids (Still) Don’t Want to Facebook Friends”
WWLP-TV (NBC-Springfield, MA): “Many don’t “friend” parents on Facebook”
KREX-TV (CBS-Grand Junction, CO): “Survey Shows Teens Afraid to “Friend” Their Parents on Facebook”
Admit This!: “Teens Ignore Parents’ Facebook Friend Requests”
Skirt!.com: “My Teenager, My Facebook Friend”
Babble.com: “Teens Ignore Their Parents. Now on Facebook, Too.”
Tri-State Defender: “Family, yes, but not necessarily friends on Facebook”
Even as Most High School Students Say Their Parents are Involved in their Academic Lives,
Many Teens Want to Keep Them Out of their Facebook Realms
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New York, NY (January 12, 2011) – According to Kaplan Test Prep’s latest survey* on social networking trends and practices among today’s teens, 35% of teens whose parents are on Facebook report that they are actually not online friends with them. Of that group, 38% say the reason they are not friends is because they’ve ignored mom or dad’s friend request. But even as some teens ignore their parents’ friend requests, 82% say that mom and dad are either “very involved” (44%) or “somewhat involved” (38%) in their academic lives.
“Although for generations high school students have come to accept and even embrace their parents’ involvement in their academic work and the college admissions process, Facebook continues to be the new frontier in the ever evolving relationship between parent and child,” said Kristen Campbell, executive director, college prep programs, Kaplan Test Prep. “When a teen ignores a parent’s friend request, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are hiding something, but it could mean that this is one particular part of their life where they want to exert their independence. Alternatively, some parents and their children may actually mutually decide to keep their Facebook lives private from one another.”
Other key Kaplan Test Prep survey results:
A separate May 2010 Kaplan Test Prep survey of 973 high school students reported that of teens who said their parents were on Facebook, a much higher percentage (56%) provided their parents with full profile access – status updates, party photos and all – than with no access at all (34%). Only 9% of teens gave their parents limited access.
*The survey was conducted by e-mail of 2,313 Kaplan Test Prep students who took the SAT and/or ACT between June 2010 and December 2010.
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