45% Employers use Facebook-Twitter to screen job candidates | Oregon Business News. Forty-five Percent of Employers Use Social Networking Sites to Research Job Candidates, CareerBuilder Survey FindsCareer Expert Provides DOs and DON’Ts for Job Seekers on Social Networking CHICAGO, August 19, 2009 – As social networking grows increasingly pervasive, more employers are utilizing these sites to screen potential employees.
Forty-five percent of employers reported in a recent CareerBuilder survey that they use social networking sites to research job candidates, a big jump from 22 percent last year. Another 11 percent plan to start using social networking sites for screening. More than 2,600 hiring managers participated in the survey, which was completed in June 2009. Of those who conduct online searches/background checks of job candidates, 29 percent use Facebook, 26 percent use LinkedIn and 21 percent use MySpace. One-in-ten (11 percent) search blogs while 7 percent follow candidates on Twitter. Why Employers Disregarded Candidates After Screening Online.
Youth and Media. Online Activities: What teens do online. Three major technology revolutions have occurred during the period the Pew Research Center has been studying digital technology – and yet more are on the horizon. Broadband First, the rise of the internet changed the way that people got information and shared it with each other, affecting everything from users’ basic social relationships to the way that they work, learn, and take care of themselves. The speed of internet connectivity picked up considerably with the rise of broadband connections. As people adopted those higher-speed, always-on connections, they became different internet users: They spent more time online, performed more activities, watched more video, and themselves become content creators. Mobile Second, mobile connectivity through cell phones, and later smartphones and tablet computers, made any time-anywhere access to information a reality for the vast majority of Americans.
Social. Trend Data (Teens) Trend Data (Adults) Updated: Change in internet access by age group, 2000-2010. Teens' parents and their technology profile. The vast majority of parents of online teens have had serious conversations with their kids about online life, the problems associated with it, and ways to navigate those spaces. A majority of parents monitor their kids’ online behavior. Relatively high numbers of parents have become friends with their offspring on social network sites.
This is all spurred by the fact that families are saturated with technology. Tech adoption and tech-usage rates by teens’ parents are higher than the general population: 91% of parents of children ages 12-17 own cell phones, and 86% of those cell owners send and receive text messages. Presentation: Teens, Kindness and Cruelty on Social Network Sites. Teens and Distracted Driving. By Mary Madden and Amanda Lenhart Overview 75% of all American teens ages 12-17 own a cell phone, and 66% use their phones to send or receive text messages.Older teens are more likely than younger teens to have cell phones and use text messaging; 82% of teens ages 16-17 have a cell phone and 76% of that cohort are cell texters.One in three (34%) texting teens ages 16-17 say they have texted while driving.
That translates into 26% of all American teens ages 16-17.Half (52%) of cell-owning teens ages 16-17 say they have talked on a cell phone while driving. That translates into 43% of all American teens ages 16-17.48% of all teens ages 12-17 say they have been in a car when the driver was texting.40% say they have been in a car when the driver used a cell phone in a way that put themselves or others in danger. Introduction Over time, cell phones have become increasingly important fixtures in Americans’ lives and public concern over their use while driving has grown.
Teens and Sexting. Findings In a nationally representative survey of those ages 12-17 conducted on landline and cell phones, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project found: 4% of cell-owning teens ages 12-17 say they have sent sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images of themselves to someone else via text messaging 15% of cell-owning teens ages 12-17 say they have received sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images of someone they know via text messaging on their cell phone.
Older teens are much more likely to send and receive these images; 8% of 17-year-olds with cell phones have sent a sexually provocative image by text and 30% have received a nude or nearly nude image on their phone. Introduction: Cell phones are more and more a part of teen life Since the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project first started tracking teen cell phone use, the age at which American teens acquire their first cell phone has consistently grown younger.
Social Media and Young Adults. By Amanda Lenhart, Kristen Purcell, Aaron Smith and Kathryn Zickuhr Overview Since 2006, blogging has dropped among teens and young adults while simultaneously rising among older adults. As the tools and technology embedded in social networking sites change, and use of the sites continues to grow, youth may be exchanging ‘macro-blogging’ for microblogging with status updates. Blogging has declined in popularity among both teens and young adults since 2006. 14% of online teens now say they blog, down from 28% of teen internet users in 2006.This decline is also reflected in the lower incidence of teen commenting on blogs within social networking websites; 52% of teen social network users report commenting on friends’ blogs, down from the 76% who did so in 2006.By comparison, the prevalence of blogging within the overall adult internet population has remained steady in recent years. 73% of wired American teens now use social networking websites, a significant increase from previous surveys.
Teens and Mobile Phones. Text messaging explodes as teens embrace it as the centerpiece of their communication strategies with friends. The mobile phone has become the favored communication hub for the majority of American teens. Cell-phone texting has become the preferred channel of basic communication between teens and their friends, and cell calling is a close second. Some 75% of 12-17 year-olds now own cell phones, up from 45% in 2004. Those phones have become indispensable tools in teen communication patterns. Fully 72% of all teens – or 88% of teen cell phone users — are text-messagers. That is a sharp rise from the 51% of teens who were texters in 2006. Among all teens, their frequency of use of texting has now overtaken the frequency of every other common form of interaction with their friends (see chart below).
Fully two-thirds of teen texters say they are more likely to use their cell phones to text their friends than talk to them to them by cell phone. Teens typically make or receive 5 calls a day. Adults and Cell Phone Distractions. Adults and cell phone distractions Adults are just as likely as teens to have texted while driving and are substantially more likely to have talked on the phone while driving.
In addition, 49% of adults say they have been passengers in a car when the driver was sending or reading text messages on their cell phone. Overall, 44% of adults say they have been passengers of drivers who used the cell phone in a way that put themselves or others in danger. Beyond driving, some cell-toting pedestrians get so distracted while talking or texting that they have physically bumped into another person or an object.
These are some of the key findings from a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project: Nearly half (47%) of all texting adults say they have sent or read a text message while driving. That compares to one in three (34%) texting teens ages 16-17 who said they had “texted while driving” in a September 2009 survey. Introduction and background. Teens, Smartphones & Texting. Overview The volume of texting among teens has risen from 50 texts a day in 2009 to 60 texts for the median teen text user. Older teens, boys, and blacks are leading the increase. Texting is the dominant daily mode of communication between teens and all those with whom they communicate. The typical American teen is sending and receiving a greater number of texts than in 2009.
The median number of texts (i.e. the midpoint user in our sample) sent on a typical day by teens 12-17 rose from 50 in 2009 to 60 in 2011. The frequency of teens’ phone chatter with friends – on cell phones and landlines – has fallen. Teens’ phone conversations with friends are slipping in frequency. 14% of all teens say they talk daily with friends on a landline, down from 30% who said so in 2009. However, the Pew Internet survey shows that the heaviest texters are also the heaviest talkers. About one in four teens report owning a smartphone. Smartphones are gaining teenage users. Teens & Online Video. Summary 37% of internet users ages 12-17 participate in video chats with others using applications such as Skype, Googletalk or iChat.
Girls are more likely than boys to have such chats.27% of internet-using teens 12-17 record and upload video to the internet. One major difference between now and 2006 is that online girls are just as likely these days to upload video as online boys. 13% of internet-using teens stream video live to the internet for other people to watch.Social media users are much more likely than those who do not use social media to engage in all three video behaviors studied.
Some 95% of teens 12-17 use the internet, according to a survey of 799 teens conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project between April 19 and July 14, 2011. Video chatting 37% of online teens have video chat conversations with others. Nearly 2 in 5 online teens (37%) say they have video chatted with someone else using applications such as Skype, iChat or Googletalk. Group participation and technology. A closer look at generations and cell phone ownership. Eighty-five percent of Americans age 18 and older own a cell phone, and one-third (33%) of those who do not own a cell phone live in a household with at least one working mobile phone. This means that overall, overall, 90% of all adults live in a household with at least one working cell phone. These findings are based on a survey of 3,001 American adults (ages 18 and older) conducted between August 9 and September 13, 2010. The margin of error is +/- 3 percentage points.
Interviews were conducted in English and Spanish, and the survey included 1,000 cell phone interviews. For more information, including gadget ownership trends over time, please see the main report, “Generations and their gadgets.” Teens. Parents, Teens and Digital Monitoring Parents monitor their teen’s digital activities in a number of ways, such as checking browser histories or social media profiles, but using technical means like parental controls is less common. Teens Voices: Dating in the Digital Age From flirting to breaking up, social media and mobile phones are woven into teens’ romantic lives. This interactive essay features teens voices as they describe their experience navigating dating in the digital age. Teens, Technology and Romantic Relationships From heart emojis on Instagram to saying goodbye to a relationship with a text message, digital technology plays an important role in teen relationships.
Teens, Technology and Friendships American teens don’t just make friends in the schoolyard or neighborhood — many are finding new friends online. Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015 Smartphones are fueling a shift in the communication landscape for teens. 13 Things to Know About Teens and Technology. The tone of life on social networking sites.
The tone of life on social networking sites The overall social and emotional climate of social networking sites (SNS) is a very positive one where adult users get personal rewards and satisfactions at far higher levels than they encounter anti-social people or have ill consequences from their encounters. A nationally representative phone survey of American adults finds that: 85% of SNS-using adults say that their experience on the sites is that people are mostly kind, compared with 5% who say people they observe on the sites are mostly unkind and another 5% who say their answer depends on the situation. 68% of SNS users said they had an experience that made them feel good about themselves. 61% had experiences that made them feel closer to another person. (Many said they had both experiences.) 39% of SNS-using adults say they frequently see acts of generosity by other SNS users and another 36% say they sometimes see others behaving generously and helpfully.
Trust and Privacy Online. Trust and privacy online: Why Americans want to rewrite the rules In a season of growing concern about privacy on the Internet, The Pew Internet & American Life Project surveyed 2,117 Americans, 1,017 of whom are Internet users, from May 19 to June 21 about trust and privacy online. Their responses illustrated some fascinating cross currents on these issues. Online Americans have great concerns about breaches of privacy, while at the same time they do a striking number of intimate and trusting things on the Internet, and the overwhelming majority have never had a seriously harmful thing happen to them online. On some major points, though, there is a powerful consistency: The first point is that American Internet users overwhelmingly want the presumption of privacy when they go online.
The second point is that a great many Internet users do not know the basics of how their online activities are observed and they do not use available tools to protect themselves. Put users first. Teens, Privacy and Online Social Networks. Many teenagers avidly use social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, and employ a variety of tools and techniques to manage their online identities. Online social networks are spaces on the internet where users can create a profile and connect that profile to others to create a personal network. Social network users post content to their profiles and use tools embedded within social networking websites to contact other users. Young adults and teenagers are among the most avid users of such websites. Much of the media coverage surrounding young people and online social networks has focused on the personal information teens make available on these networks. Are they sharing information that will harm their future college or job prospects?
Most teenagers are taking steps to protect themselves online from the most obvious areas of risk. Still, the survey also suggests that today’s teens face potential risks associated with online life. Digital Footprints.