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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