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May 21, 2013Mary Madden, Amanda Lenhart, Sandra Cortesi, Urs Gasser, Maeve Duggan, Aaron Smith
Youth are sharing more personal information on their profiles than in the past. They choose private settings for Facebook, but share with large networks of friends.
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Data suggests that adolescents are both comfortable with new technologies, and yet not always as technically savvy as we collectively believe them to be. Read our teens research summary.
Martha Irvine, Associated Press, Houston Chronicle
Jan 7, 2007
"For 17-year-old Amanda Sanchez, social networking is an obsession, a distraction — and when she moved to a new town last summer, it was her lifeline."Over the summer, MySpace was my best friend," says the high school junior, who lives in San Dimas, ...
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Jan 7, 2007Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden
More than half (55%) of all online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites.
BBC News.com
"More than half of all net-using American teenagers use social networking sites, research suggests.The study for the Pew Internet Project involved 935 teenagers and found 55% of American youths aged 12-17 had accounts at sites such as MySpace and Fac...
Aline van Duyn , Financial Times
"Many parents of teenagers are used to berating their children for spending too much time on the internet, and for revealing too much about themselves on publicly available social networking sites such as MySpace.com.Now, in a study released today, i...
Nov 19, 2006
This data set contains questions about parent/teen internet usage, attitudes towards technology and teen experiences online. It was used in the reports "Teens and Social Media", "Parent and Teen Internet Use", "Teens and Online Stranger Contact", "Cy...
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Nov 6, 2006Amanda Lenhart
More than a third or 35% of online adults create content online, and 57% of teenagers 12-17 make their own content to post to the Web. Younger users and home broadband users are the most avid content creators, and most post their creations online to ...
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Nov 3, 2006Mary Madden
Recent Pew Internet Project research examines technology use by teenagers and suggests how the behavior and expectations of young internet users might shape the libraries of the future.
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Oct 27, 2006Lee Rainie
This presentation covers the media and communications environment of today's teenagers and young adults and how that new environment has affected their expectations and behaviors about media, communication, and creation.
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Sep 28, 2006Lee Rainie
Young workers who have grown up with the internet, cell phones, video games, iPods, and digital cameras are different from their elders. Those who are now hiring the young "digital natives" need to know how their new world has shaped their behavior a...
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Jul 11, 2006Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden, Lee Rainie
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.
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of cell owners receive unwanted sales or marketing calls at one time or another. And 25% of cell owners encounter this problem at least a few times a week or more frequently.
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