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shared by Hye Rin Bae on 25 Aug 11 - No Cached

That’s the kind of Facebook status update making American teens more likely to drink and take drugs, according to a phone survey of 1,037 teens by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
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Teens who use social media are five times likelier to smoke, three times likelier to use alcohol and twice as likely to use marijuana than those who don’t, the survey found.
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It warns that viewing photos of kids passed out drunk or lighting up a joint on social media sites has an even greater impact on teens.
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Forty per cent of teens said they were exposed to such images, half of them before they were 13. This group were also more able to procure weed or prescription drugs and four times more likely to smoke up.
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skewed
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portrayal
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demographics
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Parents were skeptical, according to the survey. Of a phone poll of 536 parents, a majority said they did not think social media made their child more likely to drink or use marijuana.
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shared by unchan ki on 17 Aug 11 - No Cached

Many Americans find cellphones useful for
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boredom
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42 percent o
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say cellphones can help stave off boredom
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13 percent say
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avoid interacting with people around them.
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29 percent
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83 percent of U.S. adults own some type of cellphone
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phones for awhile to get a break
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35 percent own a smartphone of some kind,
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51 percent say
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phone at least once to get information they needed right away in the last 30 days.
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One-quarter say they experienced a situation in the previous month in which they had trouble doing something because they did not have their phone at hand
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40 percent of cellphone owners
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hey have found themselves in an emergency situation and having a cellphone was helpful.
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shared by Ho Sung Han on 25 Aug 11 - No Cached

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The center does an annual survey on teen attitudes toward drinking and drug use.
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National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
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This year’s report found something new and alarming: Teens who regularly use Facebook and Myspace are much more likely than social network avoiders to drink, smoke and use marijuana.
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Maybe a kid has a parent who drinks heavily or uses drugs, or lives in a neighborhood where such things are commonplace.
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shared by vy Nguyen on 29 Aug 11 - No Cached

A recent study finds that teens on social networks are more likely to experiment with drinking alcohol and drugs.
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way before the Internet was born, let alone social networks.
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it's the images of intoxicated friends they've seen online that could reel them in.
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Is it fair to assume that underage drinking and substance abuse is Facebook's fault?
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after seeing images of their peers doing just that
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images alone are enough to convince some youth that substance abuse is a normal thing,
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"Forty percent of the teens in CASA's survey said they have seen images of intoxicated kids, including some who are passed out, as well as pictures of peers using drugs," says WebMD.
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shared by Mojo joanne on 29 Aug 11 - No Cached

Firefox 6 already sees bump in traffic soon after debut
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Firefox 6 just launched last week, and new research already sees the latest version of Mozilla’s browser accounting for a significant fraction of traffic.
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After Chitika took a look at all U.S. and Canadian traffic between August 16 and 22, the survey found that Firefox 6 has already garnered at least eight percent of the total traffic from browsers and approximately 45 percent of all Firefox-stemming traffic.
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However, don’t get too excited for Firefox 6 just yet. Chitika found that the growth rate for Firefox 6 is starting to taper off, likely due to the fact that all of the early adopters have already downloaded and started using Firefox 6.
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Chitika also found that Firefox 6 usage peaks during the morning and at the end of the day, but very early morning hours tend to belong to Internet Explorer. Yet, this phenomenon is only relevant to Firefox 6 and not previous editions of the software. It’s not clear what Mozilla could try to do to make up for this gap — except maybe start some kind of advertising campaign targeted at night owls and graveyard shift employees.
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shared by Na Young Kim on 29 Aug 11 - No Cached

Firefox 6 already sees bump in traffic
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Firefox 6 just launched last week
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new research already shows the latest version of Mozilla's browser accounting for a significant fraction of traffic.
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Firefox 6 officially debuted earlier this month
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the survey found that Firefox 6 has already garnered at least 8 per cent of the total traffic from browsers,
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45 per cent of all Firefox-stemming traffic.
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don't get too excited for Firefox 6 just yet;
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Chitika found that the growth rate for Firefox 6 is starting to taper off,
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This means that Mozilla has some work to do, in order to get other Firefox users and beyond to jump on this version now.
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