Hopelab & Well Being Trust 26
Age Groups
The survey was conducted among 14- to 22-year-olds. Throughout the
report, we refer to this population as "teens and young adults," or TYA.
We occasionally use the terms "youth" or "young people" as shorthand
to refer to this age group. We also discuss two developmentally distinct
sub-populations as part of this broader group: "teens" (13 to 17 years
old) and "young adults" (18 to 22 years old).
Definitions
In the questionnaire for this survey, we attempted to use the natural
language of young people wherever possible. Certain social media
practices have names that are common among young people, but may
have different connotations in different contexts. In this report, "stalking"
someone on social media means extensively checking someone out
on social media without them knowing about it. The term "trolling" is
used to mean intentionally creating conflict with someone online. The
phrase "going down a rabbit hole" on the internet refers to becoming
engrossed in a complex labyrinth of content from which it is hard
to disengage.
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The Urban Dictionary defines it as follows:
"To go down a never ending tunnel with
many twists and turns on the internet,
never truly arriving at a final destination,
yet just finding more tunnels. Clicking one
link, then finding another on that page,
then clicking another link on that page,
which gives you the idea to search for
something, and the process repeats."
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.
php?term=Rabbit%20Hole
Methodology
