Teens and distracted driving

- 75% of all american teens ages 12-17 own a cell phone, and 66% use their phones to send or recieve text messages.

- Older teens are more likely than younger teens to have cell phones and use text messaging ; 82% of teens ages 16-17 have a cell phone and 76% of that cohart are cell texters.

- 34% of texting teens ages 16-17 say that they have texted while driving.

- 52% of cell owners ages 16-17 say they have talked on a cell phone while driving.

- 48% of teens ages 12-17 say they have been in a car while the driver was texting.

Ten years after napster

Unauthorized file sharing is still a really big thing in the online music world.

At least 200 million computers have one P2P sharing application installed.

75% of teen downloaders, ages 12-17 agree that file sharing is "so easy to do its unrealistic not to do it"

Thoughts on Alan Khazie

I would not want to be this dude. His mom was a nurse and his dad was a doctor so he is very concerned with health care. He is a good talker and makes some good points about how everyone should have healthcare, but its a tough topic. If we had national healthcare that would be very socialist but on the other hand it would be good to not have these people dying because they dont have insurance. I think it will be a very big issue that many people will fight about. I hope the right choice is made, whatever that might be.

Teens and Technology

87% of 12 to 17 year old teens now use the internet in the U.S.

51% of internet teen users say that go online daily.

31% of teens on the internet use it to get health information.

Observations on that graph down there

the vast majority of online adults from all generations uses email and search engines

older generations typically do not engage with the internet past e-commerce

the majority of teens in gen y use sns, but less maintain blogs. Less than a fifth of online adults older thatn gen x use sns.

Generations Online in 2009 Charts

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Generations Online in 2009 Charts

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Summary on Global Warming page

Fewer people now believe that global warming is a major issue, according to the PEW website. It started off in 08' with 77% of peple thinking that it was a major issued, but now it is down to 57% as you can see in the graph.

I think that it might be a problem but I really dont know enough about it. I think that it is something that might be over exagerated and used to make a profit.

Chart + 5 PEW observations

1. the internet is not changing the socio-economic character of civic engagement in America

- Because no matter what some people just arent interested in politics.

2. those who are lower on the socio-economic ladder are less likely to go online or to have broadband access at home, making it impossible for them to engage in online political activity.

- Its not impossible, they could go to someone elses house or the library. Even if they did have the interent, it doesnt mean that they would automatically be interested in online politics.

3. 33% of internet users have a profile on a social networking site and that 31% of these social network members had engaged in activities with a civic or political focus.

- Just like lying and saying you voted, some or most of them do it just because they dont wanna be the only person not doing it.

4. Some 37% of internet users aged 18-29 use blogs or social networking sites as a venue for political or civic involvement, compared to 17% of online 30-49 year olds, 12% of 50-64 year olds and 10% of internet users over 65

- Thats because those older people grew up reading the paper or watching the news, not using the internet for political information.

5. Just over one-third of Americans (36%) are involved in a civic or political group

- Thats weird, I thought it would be a lot more.

Osama wins the Nobel Peace prize...oops

Im not exactly sure what he did to deserve this. I thought I just heard on CNN that he was about to send out 40,000 more troops to Afgahnistan. But whatever good for him

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/10/09/reaction_obama_wins_nobel_peac.html?wprss=44

Linx

http://www.newsweek.com/
I liked this link because it was catchy. As soon as you get to the page you are greated with a bunch of pitcures and words in big, bold letters.

http://www.stateline.org/live/

I liked this link because it looks like it has a ton of info on it. There are a lot of links from this website to different stories.

http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/politics/

I liked this link because it is a very famous website and is relyed on to provide lots of news and valuable information.

5 things on graph

1. 73% of the population reports using the internet or email. Makes sense cuz a lot of people need the internet or email for work.

2. 95% of online college graduates make more than 75k. I dont think that has anything to do with the internet, just the fact that they graduated from college.

3. 70% of people ages 50-64 have used/use the internet. Thats not surprising to me because older people are starting to use the internet a lot more now a days.

4. 44% of people with no high school degree are online. I think a lot of these people could be looking for jobs on the internet.

5. 73% of men and women use the internet. Weird that on this graph its exactly the same. I think this is good stuff cuz like I said many men and women use the internet for work purposes.

Degrees of Access (May 2008 data)

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Degrees of Access (May 2008 data)

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6 observations on men and women internet use

1. The percentage of women using the internet is lower than the percentage of men. Women under 30 and black women are on the internet more than their male peers. However, older women trail by a lot to older men.

- I think these statements are true because, women are a lot more busy than men. And from what I have observed women arent as lazy as men.

2. Men are more intense internet users than women. Men spend more time online, and are more likely to be broadband users.

- I think that work can attribute to these statements. A lot of men sit on computers all day for work.

3. In most subjects of internet activity, more men than women are involved, but women are catching up.

- Because men spend more time on the internet.

4. More online men than women perform online transactions.

- Because men are lazy and dont want to go to the store.

5. Men are more avid consumers than women of online information. Men look for information on a wider variety of topics and issues than women do.

- I think this is true because some women just dont care.

6. Men are more likely than women to use the internet as a destination for recreation

- Men play games, women get stuff done.

3 types of Bridging websites, maybe

AIM -- Chatrooms on AIM can bring people together to talk about different topics. People might not be interested in a subject but then join a chatroom because their friend asked them too and by the end of the chatroom, maybe they are now interested.

Facebook -- Is a form of bridging for the same exact reason I said it is a form of bonding. Facebook takes a bunch of people and can get them interested in something they didnt care about before, like farming.

Dating -- They take a bunch of different people and find their similarities to make them become a couple, i think.

3 examples of Bonding websites ( I think )

Facebook -- There are a lot of things on facebook that groups like to do together. For instance, I know my girlfriend just started doing something on facebook called farmville and she has many other people "farming" with her.

Sports -- Most people that go to a particular sports teams webpage are fans of that team.

Blogging -- Brings people together to talk to each other about usually one specific topic.

FCC Internet Neutrality

The chairman of the FCC, Julius Genachowski wants to make the internet a neutral place for web companies. He wants to do this by making those web companies show how they organize their networks to proove they arent helping out certain providers get content quicker. Companies like AT & T and Verizon are not in favor of the chairman's idea, because it will clog up the networks.

Pretty much, hopefully, on Monday the FCC will be banning companies from charging more money for better, faster internet connections.

I think that there should be a standard speed of the interent and it should be the fastest there is. No one deserves to sit and wait five minutes for a page to load, that sucks.

source --> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aurmPC9b6tQE

5 Obserfreakinvations on the World

1st - Asia has a ton more internet users than any other region in the world. With a total number of 704.2 million users. Europe comes in 2nd place with a distant 402.4 internet users.

2 - Oceania and Australia are still in the dark ages. The two regions combine for only 20.8 million peeps on the internet, the smallest amount in the world.

3rd - 73.9% of North America is penetrated, ( by the interenet ).

Quatro - The middle east has a growth rate of 1,360.2%.

5 - South America is the most populated America in the America's, with a population of 392,597,416


Sources --> http://internetworldstats.com/stats2.htm and http://internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

Woah, Im blogging like on that twix commercial. No Idea what Im doing.