Interesting report on the impact of social networking on peoples lives and "real life" social networks. This survey tends to focus on more positive outcomes of social networking
34% of teens visit their main social networking site several times a day
23% of teens is a “heavy” social media user, meaning they use at least two
different types of social media each and every day
A new study finds
that 20 percent of third grade students have cell phones and 90 percent of them
are online, while 83 percent of children in middle school have one.
63% of all teens say they exchange text messages every day with people in their
lives, including their parents
Half (52 percent) of all zero- to 8-year-olds have
access to a new mobile device such as a smart phone, video iPod, or
iPad/tablet
Fully 95 percent of all teens ages 12-17 are now online, and 80 percent of
online teens are users of social media sites. Teens of all ages and backgrounds
are witnessing these mean behaviors online and are reacting in a variety of
ways:
Ninety percent of teen social media users say they
have ignored the mean behavior they have witnessed on a social network
site.
Eighty percent say they have personally defended a
victim of meanness and cruelty.
Seventy-nine percent say they have told someone to
stop their mean behavior on a social network site.
Twenty-one percent say they have personally joined
in on the harassment of others on a social network site.
Source
Nearly 90% of older teens (aged 14-17) have a cell phone, while just under 60%
of 12- to 13-year-olds have a cell phone
More than a third (38 percent) of children this
age have used one of these devices, including 10 percent of zero-to 1-year-olds,
39 percent of 2- to 4-year-olds, and more than half (52 percent) of 5- to
8-year-olds.
In a typical day, one in 10 zero- to 8-year-olds uses
a smart phone, video iPod, iPad, or similar device to play games, watch videos,
or use other apps. Those who do such activities spend an average of 43 minutes a
day doing so
Sixty-five percent of high school students use cell phones in school.
One-quarter of text messages sent by teens are sent during class.
Cell phone and wireless laptop internet use have each grown more prevalent over the last year. Nearly half of all adults (47%) go online with a laptop using a Wi-Fi connection or mobile broadband card (up from the 39% who did so as of April 2009) while 40% of adults use the internet, email or instant messaging on a mobile phone (up from the 32% of Americans who did this in 2009). This means that 59% of adults now access the internet wirelessly using a laptop or cell phone—that is, they answered “yes” to at least one of these wireless access pathways. That adds up to an increase from the 51% who used a laptop or cell phone wirelessly in April 2009.
April 29 and May 30, 2010, among a sample of 2,252
Only 10% of rural Americans go online from home with high-speed connections, about one-third the rate for non-rural Americans.
Overall, 48 million American adults had high-speed connections in the home in February 2004. This represents a growth of 60% since March 2003 when 30 million Americans had broadband connections at home. Fully half of this growth has taken place since November 2003, suggesting that it was a broadband holiday season for many Internet users in the winter of 2003/2004.
As for the pool of dial-up users who may one day move to broadband, 40% say they would like to get it and 58% say they don’t plan to get it. Of the 40% who would like to get broadband at home, many are not interested in paying more for it: 22% say they would not pay an extra dime for broadband at home and on average this group said they would pay about $9.40 per month extra for broadband. Of the 58% of dial-up users who say that they are not interested in broadband at home, half say they would not pay anything extra for it. On average these users say they would pay only about $4.25 a month more for broadband.
As gadgets with digital audio capability proliferate, podcast downloading continues to increase. Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they could listen to it or view it later.