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Justin Berton, San Francisco Chronicle
Jan 8, 2007
"In the ever-growing field of MySpace-Facebook-teenager data analysis, the Pew Internet & American Life Project released a survey Sunday that found 55 percent of all teenagers online use social networking sites.
If that sounds obvious, Amanda Lenhart,...
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Chris Cobbs, Orlando Sentinel
Jan 8, 2007
"Teens may be looking for new friends or searching for their identity. They may want to assert their independence, or maybe just flirt.
Their reasons vary, but more than half of the nation's online youth ages 12 to 17 are connecting with one another v...
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Elise Ackerman, The Mercury News
Jan 8, 2007
"Who says teens don't care about online privacy?
Since MySpace.com took off three years ago, parents have fretted about online risks to their children's safety, requesting meetings with local police and school officials to talk about Internet predator...
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Julio Ojeda-Zapata, St. Paul Pioneer Press
Jan 8, 2007
"Today's teens often are viewed as a MySpace-crazed crowd with a tendency to plaster compromising information online for all to see.
C'mon, let's give these kids a little credit.
Many U.S. teens don't use social networking Web sites like MySpace.com an...
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Eric Auchard, Reuters.com
Jan 7, 2007
"More than half of U.S. teenagers use social networking sites like MySpace, but girls go online to reaffirm existing friendships, while boys are more often there to flirt, a survey published on Sunday has found.
The national survey of youth aged 12 to...
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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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Report
Jan 7, 2007Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden
More than half (55%) of all online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites.
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BBC News.com
Jan 7, 2007
"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...
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Aline van Duyn , Financial Times
Jan 7, 2007
"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...
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