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Teens and Mobile Phones

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Thought you might be interested that we just released a report about how teens use their cell phones and how those phones have become the central communication hub of teens? lives:

Teens and Mobile Phones
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones.aspx

Among other things, the report and an underlying survey found that:

Text messaging has become the most frequent way that teens reach their friends, surpassing face-to-face meetings, email, instant messaging and voice calling as a daily communications tool.

The typical American teen sends and receives 50 or more messages per day, or 1,500 per month. And there are a sizeable number who do much more than that: 31% of teens send and receive more than 100 messages per day or more than 3,000 messages a month; 15% of teens who are texters send more than 200 texts a day, or more than 6,000 texts a month.

· The report runs down a lot of details about the things that teens do with their phones besides texting and talking. For example: 83% use their phones to take pictures; 60% play music on their phones; 46% play games on their phones; 32% exchange videos on their phones; 27% go online for general purposes on their phones; 23% access social networking sites on their phones.

Cell phones are not just about calling or texting ? with expanding functionality, phones have become multimedia recording devices and pocket-sized internet connected computers. Among teen cell phone owners:

Teens who have multi-purpose phones are avid users of those extra features. The most popular are taking and sharing pictures and playing music:

83% use their phones to take pictures.
64% share pictures with others.
60% play music on their phones.
46% play games on their phones.
32% exchange videos on their phones.
31% exchange instant messages on their phones.
27% go online for general purposes on their phones.
23% access social network sites on their phones.
21% use email on their phones.
11% purchase things via their phones.

The majority of teens are on family plans where someone else foots the bill.

Don’t I know it!

Stephen

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on April 24, 2010 (boomark / email).