While we will describe members of the youth sample as adolescents, some were younger than 13 years of age. We intended to include only those participants who met Facebook’s minimum age criterion (13 years), but found that many younger people reported lying about their age in order to use Facebook. We felt that it was important to include these users in our sample. The adult sample consisted of 285 Facebook users (men, N ¼ 118; women, N ¼ 165; two participants did not specify their gender) who were not students (aged 19–71, M ¼ 31.6, SD ¼ 10.28).
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