2022 Trends and Stats*
- Female tweens and teens were 51% more likely than males to have body image and disordered eating content flagged.
- Suicide, depression, and anxiety alerts peak at ages 15–16, and are slightly higher for females than for males.
- Alerts for depression were down 27% in tweens and 22% in teens over the previous year.
- 13-year-old females had the most frequent suspicious encounters with risky contacts.
- Female tweens and teens were 51% more likely than males to have body image and disordered eating content flagged.
- 9.4% of tweens and 14.2% of teens encountered predatory behaviors from someone online.
*In 2022, Bark analyzed more than 4.5 billion messages across texts, email, YouTube, and 30+ apps and social media platforms. These findings exclude school-based accounts.
