Teens, Privacy and Online Social Networks
The majority of teens actively manage their online profiles to keep the information they believe is most sensitive away from the unwanted gaze of strangers, parents and other adults.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The majority of teens actively manage their online profiles to keep the information they believe is most sensitive away from the unwanted gaze of strangers, parents and other adults.
Fully 87% of teens go online, compared to just 32% of Americans age 65+. This leads, of course, to a wide gap when it comes to computer skills; there is less of a gap when it comes to the some of the activities each group pursues online.
This is a discussion of the eight realities of technology and social experience that are shaping the world of today’s teens and twenty-somethings.
A summary document of Pew Internet Project data on youth and technology prepared in advance of testimony by Pew Internet staffer Amanda Lenhart at the House Telecom subcommittee hearings.
Today’s American teens live in a world enveloped by communications technologies; the internet and cell phones have become a central force that fuels the rhythm of daily life.
American teenagers today are utilizing the interactive capabilities of the internet as they create and share their own media creations.
There has been a 45% increase since 2000 in the number of teenagers who use the internet at school.
The presentation outlines three main groups, roughly aligned with the constituencies of a college or university website–teens/prospective students, current students and parents–and discusses the online nature, behaviors and beliefs of these groups.
Amanda’s presentation covered how teenagers, college students and their parents use the Internet.
Ms. Lenhart’s speech covered how young Americans use the Internet, with a particular focus on instant messaging.
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