---
title: "Kids, Privacy and Online Drama"
description: "Amanda Lenhart, danah boyd, and Alice Marwick will discuss the ways young people interact online, how they manage their privacy, and common misconceptions of adults when it comes to cyberbullying."
date: "2011-12-13"
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/2011/12/13/kids-privacy-and-online-drama/"
categories:
  - "Online Privacy & Security"
  - "Privacy Rights"
  - "Religion & Social Values"
  - "Teens & Tech"
  - "Teens & Youth"
tags:
  - "Safety"
  - "Social Networking"
  - "Teens"
---

# Kids, Privacy and Online Drama

Amanda Lenhart, danah boyd, and Alice Marwick will discuss the ways young people interact online, how they manage their privacy, and common misconceptions of adults when it comes to cyberbullying at an event organized by Microsoft and The Family Online Safety Institute.

You can read danah and Alice's recent research on teens [here](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1926349).

You can read Amanda's recent report on teens and social networking sites [here](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2011/Teens-and-social-media.aspx).