Selected news stories about the Pew Internet Project and articles citing our data.
American teens devour and feed Web's content
11/3/2005 | 
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Timothy McNulty, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
'"American teenagers are doing more than just passively surfing the Web: More than half are adding their own content to the Internet, through blogs and other interactive means, according to a new survey.
Teens share the content -- which includes personal writings, artwork and photos -- far more than their parents do. They also use the Net to download a lot more music than adults and are divided over whether they should pay for it.
The survey results by the Pew Internet & American Life Project do not surprise teens, or the adults who work with them. Having grown up with the Internet, it is an organic part of teenagers' lives, as they have naturally progressed from e-mail and instant-messaging friends to posting personal Web pages on MySpace and other social networking sites.
"When we were growing up, that's what we did on Friday or Saturday night. We didn't go out -- we talked to friends on IM or whatever," said Alexandra Wilson, a 17-year-old senior at Moon Area High School. "We grew up with that and kept using that as we got older."
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