Little is known about the risks of this behavior for minority adolescents.The majority of studies that have examined sexual risk behavior online or STI/HIV prevention programs online have been among adult MSM.A community-level intervention, i POL, was conducted at the Facebook social networking website and at top1069 as a control.

Most of us are here because we are probably familiar with the recent studies that report high rates of unprotected sex and outbreaks of STDs among men who meet other men in Internet chat rooms.

A total of 369 i POLs posted 432 articles and 503 replies to others, influencing 959,088 persons on Facebook.

A total of 1037 MSM, 552 (53.23%) from an intervention website and 485 (46.76%) from a control website, participated in the follow-up study survey (response rate 96%).

In this study, data from 1,045 African American youth found that 6% met sex partners online and in chat rooms.

Odds ratios, adjusting for gender, found this behavior was associated with alcohol ( = 8.53, 95% CI [2.7, 27.3]) were independently associated with having sex with a partner met online.