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Facts and Statistics on Teens and Technology
General Teen Social Media & Technology Stats
- 93% of teens ages 12-17 go online
- 69% of teens have their own computer
- 63% of teen internet users go online every day
- 27% of teens use their phone to get online
- 24% of teens with a game console use it to go online
- 73% of teens are on a social network
- The average teen has 201 Facebook friends
- 37% send messages to friends every day
- 8% of American teens use Twitter
- Online gaming site Roiworld surveyed 600 teens ages 13 to 17 in late April 2010 and found that teens spend two hours per day online on average, 80% of which is spent using a social network
- As many as 7.5 million Facebook users in the U.S. are under age 13 -- a violation of Facebook's user policies -- according to a new study by Consumer Reports reported by Ad Age
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Teens and Cell Phones
- A 2010 Pew Internet Project survey found that 75% of those ages 12-17 have cell phones, up from 45% in 2004. The Pew Internet Project report also documents that many teens use their cells for an array of activities beyond texting and talking. Of the 75% of teens who have cell phones: 83% use their phones to take pictures, 64% share pictures with others, 60% play music on their phones, 46% play games on their phones
- According to comScore, as of June there were 234 million U.S. cell-phone subscribers 13 and older, and about 33% of these were smartphone owners
- According to market research firm the Yankee Group, 54 percent of 8 to 12 year olds will have cell phones within the next three years (http://cmch.tv/mentors/hotTopic.asp?id=70)
What Teens do on Social Network Sites
- 86% of social network-using teens comment on a friend's wall
- 83% comment on friends' pictures
- 66% send private messages to friends
- 58% send IM or text messages using the site
- 52% send group messages
Bullying & Sexting
- 55% of teens have given out personal info to someone they don’t know, including photos and physical descriptions
- 29% of teens have posted mean info, embarrassing photos or spread rumors about someone
- 29% have been stalked or contacted by a stranger or someone they don’t know
- 24% have had private or embarrassing info made public without their permission
- 22% have been cyberpranked
- 56% of teens say they have been the target of some type of online harassment
- 15% percent of the young people surveyed say they have sent nude photos or videos of themselves
- 21% say they've received nude photos or videos from others. About half of those involved say they felt pressured to do so
- 41% have experienced some form of digital dating abuse — including checking in multiple times a day, reading messages without permission, pressuring others to respond to messages or spreading rumors
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