The majority of social media-using teens say their peers are mostly kind to one another on social network sites. Their views are less positive than those of social media-using adults. Share This Page Most American teens who use social media say that in their experience, people their age are mostly kind to one another on social network sites. Overall, 69% of social media-using teens think that peers are mostly kind to each other on social network sites. Another 20% say that peers are mostly unkind, while 11% volunteered that "it depends." At the same time, in a similar question asked of adults 18 and older, 85% of social media-using adults reported that people are mostly kind to one another on social network sites, while just 5% felt that people are mostly unkind. 4 88% of social media-using teens have witnessed other people be mean or cruel on social network sites. Among social media users, 88% of teens have seen someone be mean or cruel to another person on a social network site. Asked, "When you're on a social networking site, how often do you see people being mean or cruel?," teens who use social network sites say the following about how frequently they witnessed such behavior: 12% say they witnessed cruel behavior "frequently." 29% say they saw meanness on social network sites "sometimes." 47% say they saw such behavior "only once in a while." Overall, adults are less likely to say they have seen meanness on social media; 69% of