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Friday 21 December 2007

New report on Teenagers and Social Media very revealing


In a new report on teenagers and social media by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that there is a subset of teens who are 'super-communicators' -- teens who have a host of technology options for dealing with family and friends, including traditional landline phones, cell phones, texting, social network sites, instant messaging, and email. They represent about 28% of the entire teen population and they are more likely to be older girls.

Very striking is the percentages of teenagers who prefer telephone and face-to-face contact over email. The level of sophistication of using multimedia methods of communication is one that many adults are enjoying too! Lots of time juggling required tho, whoops, though....

2 comments:

davidwilcox said...

Does that mean teens are becoming transliterate?

Tessy Britton said...

I think so David - great link thank you! What is really interesting is what makes someone become a Super Communicator at a transliterate level - are the drivers the same as for someone who is a face-to-face communicator only? Do Super Communicators become natural Super Connectors? The things which keep us awake!!