TechHive: Slurs still litter social websites, but appear to be increasingly unacceptable

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Slurs still litter social websites, but appear to be increasingly unacceptable Nov 20th 2013, 20:30, by Zach Miners, IDG News Service Discriminatory language is as pervasive on sites like Facebook and Twitter as it was a couple of years ago, but fewer teens and young adults seem to be OK with that, a recent survey found. About half of young people reported seeing discriminatory language or images posted on social-networking sites, according to the results of a survey released Wednesday by the Associated Press-National Opinion Research Center for Public Affairs Research and MTV. Roughly the same findings were made in a 2011 survey. The language might include misogynistic and homophobic words and phrases such as "that's so gay." Many young people use such language, the survey found, to try to be funny or because they think it's cool. But that thinking might be changing. Compared to 2011, nearly 20 percent fewer teenagers and people in their early 20s said it was OK for them and their friends to use discriminatory language around each other, even when they know they don't mean it, the survey found. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: social_networking-copy-100069220-small.jpg

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