March 2012
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Feedback please!
Attention Tumblr followers:
We’ve rounded up highlights of our work related to social networking into a tip sheet in two versions — one in full detail, and one in less detail. Which do you prefer?
Full detail: http://pewrsr.ch/H10jnl
Less detail: http://pewrsr.ch/GZsNbZ
Feel free to answer right here on Tumblr, or send your responses to jbrenner@pewinternet.org (web coordinator).
We...
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Are we entering an age of “apps potatoes”? →
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Apps vs. Web: Winner? →
The Web Is Dead? No.
We’ve got a new report out today that reveals that tech experts say a mobile/apps revolution is driving Web evolution but ‘appification’ has its dangers …
What do you think?
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New report: Teens, Smartphones & Texting
Texting dominates teens’ general communication choices, and 23% of teens own a smartphone. The volume of texting among teens has risen from 50 texts a day in 2009 to 60 texts for the median teen text user. Among teen communication choices:
63% say that they use text to communicate with others every day.
39% of teens make and receive voice calls on their mobile phones every day.
35% of all...
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“It occurred to me that if Uncle Burt went online, for the first time in his life...”
– The internet’s impact on one man’s life — another great commentary by our Susannah Fox, as recounted to her by Nell Minow.
Read the full story …
What's the future for self-tracking? →
Our associate director for digital strategy Susannah Fox has a new commentary up about personal data collection — do you self-track?
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Americans Love Google! Americans Hate Google! →
Great analogy to Disney at the end of this Atlantic article about our new report on search engine use and users’ views on personalized search results and targeted ads
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Search engines and users' views about personalized...
In our February 2012 survey, we included several questions asking how respondents feel about search engines and other websites collecting information about them and using it to either shape their search results or target advertising to them. While users are more satisfied than ever with the quality of search results, clear majorities of internet and search users disapprove of sites collecting...
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Who owns tablet computers as of Jan. 2012? →
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“ … we have learned that people are innately more social than was ever...”
– Communications Consultant Stowe Boyd on the future behavior of hyperconnected millennials.
Read more: Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives
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Is the Internet ruining or improving today's... →
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