Summary and Evaluation

In the article ,” Social Networking Sites and Teens,” Lenhart and Madden shows how teenagers use social networking , and the reasons why they use them. First, the article describes the common state of using social media. Then, a survey demonstrates the manner in which young people use social networking sites ; moreover, the causes that lead teenagers to use them. The article concludes by defining social media sites  and the survey method. 

The article can somewhat be trusted. First of all , although the article was written in 2007, this topic has been recently studied up until now. Secondly, the article has some information that people currently agree with ; however , the statistical data about the number of young people who use social media is obsolete . Therefore, the article is partly true. Moreover , the article shows only one type of social media that had been used during 2007 which is Facebook ; in contrast , recently there are a variety of social media namely ; Whatsapp, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, Line and so forth. The written article was taken from pewresearch .org, an online website. It is an organization run by the government, so it can be trusted . Finally, the article’s main point is to demonstrate in what way teens use social networks and what are the reasons for utilizing them .