---
title: "Teens, Online Stranger Contact & Harassment: What the data tell us"
description: "At the request of the Internet Safety Task Force, Amanda Lenhart presented the Pew Internet Project's most recent data on online stranger contact, cyberbullying, the steps that teens take to ensure (or not) their online privacy and the ways in whi..."
date: "2008-04-25"
authors:
  - name: "Amanda Lenhart"
    job_title: "Former Director of Teens and Technology Research at the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/amanda-lenhart/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2008/04/25/teens-online-stranger-contact-harassment-what-the-data-tell-us/"
categories:
  - "Online Harassment & Bullying"
  - "Online Privacy & Security"
  - "Privacy Rights"
  - "Teens & Tech"
  - "Teens & Youth"
tags:
  - "Privacy"
  - "Safety"
  - "Teens"
---

# Teens, Online Stranger Contact & Harassment: What the data tell us

At the request of the Internet Safety Task Force, Amanda Lenhart presented the Pew Internet Project's most recent data on online stranger contact, cyberbullying, the steps that teens take to ensure (or not) their online privacy and the ways in which parents monitor and regulate the home computing and media use environment.

http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/teens-online-stranger-contact-harassment-what-the-data-tell-us