This site tells you the precise time of any major city in the world and provides users with the exact number of days, weeks, hours, minutes, and seconds until any date you enter. Spring break, 30 days!
The youngest generation use every medium of communication possible but avoid the actual phone conversation, an average teen amasses 3,000 texts per month.
350 million people use Facebook, most every single day, and it has doubled in growth every year for the past 2 years. It is becoming a major cultural force, read about the effects its having.
Interesting study in Baltimore about how news starts and how it moves through various communications vehicles (e.g., daily paper, blogs, new media etc.)