Pew Internet

Among teen social media users:

• 93% have an account on Facebook
• 24% have an account on MySpace
• 12% have an account on Twitter
• 7% have an account on a Yahoo site
• 6% have an account on YouTube
• 2% have an account on each of the following: Skype, myYearbook, and Tumblr
• 1% have an account on Google Buzz

Read more in our recent report: Teens, kindness and cruelty on social network sites.

From our new report: Teens, kindness and cruelty on social network sites
Part 2: What teens experience and how they behave on social network sites 

The majority of teens have positive online experiences, but some are caught in an online feedback loop of meanness and negative experiences:

• Most of the 77% of all teens who use social media say their experience is that people their age are mostly kind to one another on social network sites—overall, 69% say their experience is that peers are mostly kind to each other in social network spaces. Another 20% say their peers are mostly unkind, while 11% volunteered that “it depends.”
• However, in a similar question asked of adults 18 and older, 85% of social media-using adults reported that their experience was that people are mostly kind to one another on social network sites, while just 5% reported that they see people behaving in mostly unkind ways.

When we asked them to describe how people act online, the results were pretty negative:

…but the teens who were asked about how they thought people should act online gave responses that were substantially more positive: 

Read more…

world-shaker:

The students…they’re getting smarter.

Data note: One of our recent teens reports found that half of teens send 50 or more text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month, and one in three send more than 100 texts a day, or more than 3,000 texts a month. 

However, when it comes to possession of a mobile phone during the school day, just 12% of teens with cell phones say that they can have a cell phone at their school at all times. A majority of teens (62%) say that they can have a cell phone at school but not in class, and another quarter (24%) attend schools that forbid cell phones altogether. 

We are conducting our new survey about the future of the internet now and we’d love you to participate as a respondent. You can take the survey here.

The survey is similar in format to our previous work. We ask experts and avid followers of the internet to answer questions about alternative scenarios for the way technology will evolve and affect people over the next decade. After you’ve chosen a scenario, we hope you’ll explain your answer more elaborately by completing a narrative portion of the survey.

In all, we hope the survey will take 15-20 minutes to complete. And we hope you’ll like it enough to recommend it to your friends!

Want more? You can also read through previous “Future of the internet” reports on our website and at imaginingtheinternet.org.

(Source: elon.edu)

New on the site: A quick guide to our new (and old) teens data resources. This short piece walks you through a decade of data on 12-17 year-olds with our brand-new teens trend charts, from a snapshot of teen internet user demographics to a closer look at teens’ online activities.

Note to data hounds: We’ve also got a new spreadsheet of teen tech activities since 2000 to complement our usual array of data sets in several formats. Start downloading!

Further Reading

• Report: Teens and Distracted Driving (2009)
• Report: Adults and Cell Phone Distractions (2010)

Texting is the form of communication that has grown the most for teens during the last four years. The data show that between 2006 and 2009 the percent of teens who use texting to contact friends outside of school on a daily basis has gone from 27% to 54%. Face-to-face contact, instant messaging, mobile voice and social network messaging have remained flat during the same period, while use of email and the landline phone have decreased slightly. Read more…

Source: Teens and Mobile Phones, by Amanda Lenhart, Rich Ling, Scott Campbell, and Kristen Purcell (2010), based on Pew Internet September 2009 survey data

Further Reading

• Report: Teens and Mobile Phones (2010)
• Report: Generations and their gadgets (2011)