Pew study of American’s teen cellphone use reinforces impression that they’re always using them

The cellphone — that be-all of teen life — is ever more indispensable to the youngest generation, embraced not just for calling friends and sending a barrage of text messages but also increasingly for playing games, snapping photos, sharing videos, listening to music and going online.The connection between American teen and thumb-tapping keypad is so strong that more than four of five adolescents say they have slept with their cellphone in or near their bed, according to a report released Tuesday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Some keep it under the pillow, to awaken for late-night texts. Others use the built-in alarm to wake up. “This device has become a communication and often entertainment hub in their lives,” says Pew researcher Amanda Lenhart, a coauthor of the report, which showed more than one in four teens now access the Internet by cellphone and 54 percent record video. Six in 10 play music.To read this report in The Washington Post in full, see:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/19/AR2010041904995.htmlAlso see:‘Texting eclipses talking’ among US teens
Texting has become the most popular form of communication among young people in the US, research indicates.The study, by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, suggests that texting has eclipsed mobile phone calls among teenagers for the first time.More than 30% of teens send more than 100 texts a day, it shows.Researchers say more payment plans offering unlimited texts have helped to create the surge in the US, which used to lag other parts of the world.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8633435.stmThird of U.S. teens with phones text 100 times a day
A third of U.S. teenagers with cell phones send more than 100 texts a day as texting has exploded to become the most popular means of communication for young people, according to new research.The study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which offers a glimpse into teen culture and communication, found that texting has risen dramatically even since 2008, eclipsing cell phone calls, instant messaging, social networks — and talking face-to-face.
http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-47833820100420Study: Teens prefer texting to talking
Like previous generations, today’s teens seem to be constantly on the phone. But now they’re doing a lot more texting than talking.One third of teens in the U.S. text more than 100 times a day, according to a study released Tuesday by Pew Internet and American Life Project.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20002917-93.htmlTo download the report in full, and see more on the study, see:
goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=11051