New Pew Internet Project report out yesterday.
Finally, some credence to the fact that young people are using less email. danah boyd has been saying this forever, but no-one would believe it until there was a study to prove it. Well, here it is.
"New technology increases the overall intensity
and frequency of their communication with friends, with email being the
one glaringly uncool exception in their eyes."
Some other key findings:
* 28% of online teens have blogs and blogging growth is almost entirely fueled by girls
* 64% of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engaging in at least one type of content creation, up from 57% of online teens in 2004.
* Some 35% of all teen girls blog, compared with 20% of online boys,
* Some 66% of teens with social network profiles
restrict access to their profiles in some way and 77% of teens who
upload photos restrict access to them at least "some of the time."
* Social network sites affect teens' lives in other ways beyond providing
space for content creation and feedback. For many teens they are now an
integral part of the system of communication that they use to conduct
the work of their lives
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