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“It would be weird to have that on Facebook”: young people's use of social media and the risk of sharing sexual health information
  1. Reviewed by Laura Hurley
  1. Senior Project Worker, Brook, London, UK; laura.hurley@brook.org.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2013-100739

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    Byron P, Albury K, Evers C. Reprod Health Matters 2013;21:35–44

    We know that the majority of teenagers with regular Internet access have Facebook accounts. A 2012 study of teenagers in the USA found that 94% of those aged 12–17 years were signed up to the Facebook website.1 What this paper attempts to unpick are the complex ways in which young people actually use the site, to assess the potential of delivering sexual health promotion messages online. Small focus groups were held to ascertain young people's experiences of using Facebook and how, if at all, sexual health messages …

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    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.