One in Three Teenagers Have Met Strangers After Connecting on Social Media [STUDY]

A third of 15 to 18 year-olds in the United Kingdom have met a person in “real life” after originally connecting with them for the first time on social media, reveals a new study.

Newsbeat polled more than 1,000 British teenagers about their digital habits, and found that one quarter feel happier online than anywhere else.

The study discovered that Facebook was the number one social network amongst teens, used by 89 percent of respondents, ahead of Twitter (62 percent) and Snapchat (58 percent).

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