Pew Internet which produces reports that explore impact of internet on families and communities have just released some not so shocking facts about American teenagers. Atleast in my opinion I expected such results.

• According to the report 93% of teens use the internet. 64% of teens between 12-17 have participated in UGC activities.
• 55% of 12-17 year olds have Facebook or MySpace.
• 47% teens have uploaded photos
• 14% post online videos

This is more like news to me:

• Blogosphere: Girls lead the way in blogging with 35% teen girls blogging as oppose to 20% of teen boys. Quote: “Younger girl bloggers have grown at such a fast clip that they are now outspaceing even older boys”
• Boys post more videos on sites like YouTube. Report suggest that 19% of teen boys post videos as oppose to 10% teen girls.
• Awesome stats for someone looking to build social network for teenagers:

See how popular instant messenger is? Clearly teens prefer chatting on IM as oppose to social networking. I’m sure this phenomenon will change with the popularity of social networks. From listening to certain experts in the area I understand that teenagers are slow adopters but very trendy. As in, when social networking is in fashion (amongst teenagers), it should spread like wild fire.

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