Media Mention

Teens take precautions online

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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No place for Myspace

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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On MySpace, girls seek friends, boys flirt -study

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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Survey shows habits of young social networkers

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

Social Networking Websites and Teens

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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Teens 'turn to social websites'

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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Most teens use social networking sites

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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Data Set

November 2006 - Parents and Teens

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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Presentation

User-Generated Content

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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Presentation

Young and Wired: How today's young tech elite will influence the libraries of tomorrow

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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