Pew Survey: Teens love Facebook, hate Blogging, are always online, and don't use Twitter

10 February 2010 | 8:34 - By Stefano Boscutti

Everybody goes online, everybody has a cell phone, and kids hate blogging and Twitter, according to a new survey.

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The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project findings show that the Internet isn't just prevalent in our lives, it is our lives. Ninety-three percent of teens ages 12 to 17 go online, 75% of them own a cell phone, and 66% say they text. In fact, 58% of 12-year-olds now have mobiles, compared to 18% just five years ago. Sixty-two percent use the Internet to access information on news and politics, and some teens are even using the Internet as a guardian: 17% say they go online to research information about drug use, sexual health, and other topics that are awkward to talk about with real people.


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15 Feb 2010 14:02 AEST

Maarten

From: de Vries

Seeking the Truth

Seems to me teens are seeking Freedom to LIVE, and the Truth, not what is put about by Big Brother. An example of the ignorant nonsense/misinformation fed even by SBS is Silvio Rivier on Global Village spouting the absolute garbage, "Horses were introduced to Argentina when Columbus CONQUERED South America (my emphasis)". Well what else can one expect in a country enslaved to US terrorism and its Law of the Gun, which actually celebrates the Foundation of a Penal Colony as its national day.

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New New Media looks at how our mediascape is exploding to bits. How the latest technology and the internet are changing the way we live, work and play. How the latest media is shaping us all.

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