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.
Young and Mobile: A Global View of Cellphones and Youth Nielsen's new whitepaper on Mobile Youth Around the World reveals that most young people with mobile phones chose their own device. In fact, across all the countries surveyed, only 16 percent of young people reported that their parents selected their mobile phone. Price was the most common consideration among youth in selecting a mobile phone, though that is true among other age groups, too. Youth aged 15 to 24 in all countries surveyed put price as the first purchase driver, with the exception of Russian youth, 21 percent of whom placed design/style first. (Some grown-ups care about design, too. Around 14 percent of Brazilian adults say design/style is the most important consideration, compared to seven percent of U.S. adults.) Out of all the countries examined, Italy leads in smartphone penetration with 47 percent of young people ages 15-24 owning a smartphone, compared to 31 percent of adults over 25.
Using Social Media to Teach: Keep It Transparent, Open and Safe – SchoolBook Facebook, Twitter, texting. An article in The Times this weekend explored the treacherous terrain of social media which, on the one hand, can be effective at organizing and teaching students. On the other hand, though, they can be seriously abused. While teachers, and their bosses, are grappling with establishing policies on conduct and privacy, Dr. Charol Shakeshaft, an expert on sexual misconduct by teachers, offers some guidelines. Social media can be used to target, groom and harm students. Dr. I write from the perspective of an educator and a researcher who has been deeply examining educator sexual misconduct for more than a decade. Educators who use social media for personal and intimate conversations and contact are not much different from those who spend their time hanging out with students at the beach. Yet there is no foolproof method to keep student communication walled off from personal communication when using a single social media site.
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. Introduction As early as 2006, and well before texting had become mainstream in the U.S., the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project reported that more than a quarter of adult cell phone owners felt their cell phone had at some point compromised their driving ability. Over time, cell phones have become increasingly important fixtures in Americans’ lives and public concern over their use while driving has grown.
When Are Facebook Users Most Active? [STUDY] @mashable We know that users are spending increasing amounts of time online on social networks like Facebook, but when exactly are users the most active? Social media management company Vitrue just released a study that identifies the days and hours users are most active on the Facebook channels maintained by companies and brands. For the study, Vitrue analyzed Facebook post data from August 10, 2007 to October 10, 2010 from more than 1,500 brand streams — more than 1.64 million posts and 7.56 million comments in all. Shares and "likes" were not included in the study. Here are some of the big takeaways: The three biggest usage spikes tend to occur on weekdays at 11:00 a.m., 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Morning Posts Are More Effective Although most posts and comments appear around 3:00 p.m. Vitrue's data indicates that morning brand posts are 39.7% more effective in terms of user engagement than those published in the afternoon. This makes sense if you think about how meetings and breaks are scheduled.
Social Media Social media includes varied online technology tools that allow people to communicate easily via the Internet to share information and resources. The dramatic growth of social media creates new opportunities for engaging students. These include social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter along with blogs and wikis. Social media are rapidly changing the way the we interact with one another. The best way to experience the power of the social media revolution is to watch this YouTube video on the Social Media Revolution. The Advantages of Using Social Media in the Classroom: Interaction using social media provides students with a sense of belonging and creates bonds between students and their peers, and between students and the instructor.
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. 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. One in three teens sends more than 100 text messages a day, or 3000 texts a month. Daily text messaging by teens to friends has increased rapidly since early 2008. Calling is still a central function of the cell phone for teens and for many teens, voice is the primary mode of conversing with parents. Cell phones are seen as a mixed blessing.
When Are Facebook Users Most Active? [STUDY] @mashable We know that users are spending increasing amounts of time online on social networks like Facebook, but when exactly are users the most active? Social media management company Vitrue just released a study that identifies the days and hours users are most active on the Facebook channels maintained by companies and brands. For the study, Vitrue analyzed Facebook post data from August 10, 2007 to October 10, 2010 from more than 1,500 brand streams — more than 1.64 million posts and 7.56 million comments in all. Shares and "likes" were not included in the study. Here are some of the big takeaways: The three biggest usage spikes tend to occur on weekdays at 11:00 a.m., 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Morning Posts Are More Effective Although most posts and comments appear around 3:00 p.m. Vitrue's data indicates that morning brand posts are 39.7% more effective in terms of user engagement than those published in the afternoon. This makes sense if you think about how meetings and breaks are scheduled.
Social Media Cartoons | Social Media Networking Posted on 20 July 2009 by asmodeus Welcome! If you like what you read, please subscribe to my RSS feed. Have a great day! Ok, boys and girls, it’s time to have some fun! As with any social commentary, there is a ring of truth in each social media cartoon, especially the pulitzer prize one. Here are a few of my favorite… That’s all folks!! 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. Introduction and background Cell phones appeal to Americans for many reasons, starting with the benefits of constant connection to family and friends.
Facebook Plugins Increasing Web Sites Traffic More data is starting to come out about how Facebook’s new social plugins are impacting other sites around the web. The buttons, as intended, appear to be sending more Facebook users to other parts of the web, especially media sites. IGN.com, a News Corp.-owned web site that covers media, digital distribution and video games, gets around 29 million monthly unique visitors. The plugins, including the Like button, Recommendations and Activity Feed, were released at f8 on April 21 with 75 partners, including CNN and Levi’s, as we previously reported, and were implemented across 50,000 web sites within the first week of their introduction. Facebook says its users have an average of 130 friends, with 25 billion pieces of content shared monthly by the 400 million-plus users on the service. Referral traffic is enhanced because the plugins also make it easier to share activity back to Facebook for your friends to see and click through.
Google+, Facebook, Twitter, and Blogs - When and Why to Use Each After week one I shared my thoughts about “What Google+ Means for Education.” I’m on week two now and the big questions are: Do I really need to join another social network? Answer: Yes.If I join Google+ can I give up Facebook, Twitter, and blogs? Answer: No.What is the benefit of each?Answer: See below.Here is where each social media platform shines and why you use each. TwitterTwitter has some important advantages over the other social media contenders. Mobile useHands down, Twitter is the mobile app winner. Of all the social media platforms, Google+ seems to me, to be the best platform for having a conversation. You can select / target who is seeing your comment.