Don't Text and Drive!

texting while driving!
1. 75% of all American teens ages 12-17 own a cell phone, and 66% use their phones to send or receive text messages.

2. 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 cohort are cell texters.

3. One in three (34%) texting teens ages 16-17 say they have texted while driving. That translates into 26% of all American teens ages 16-17.

4. Half (52%) of cell-owning teens ages 16-17 say they have talked on a cell phone while driving. That translates into 43% of all American teens ages 16-17.

5. 48% of all teens ages 12-17 say they have been in a car when the driver was texting, and 40% say they have been in a car when the driver used a cell phone in a way that put themselves or others in danger.

Party Like its 1999!

File Sharing:

3 facts from Pew Internet and American Life Project.

1. If the music business was the canary, then the MP3 was its carbon monoxide, choking an industry that had built its empire on the clean, regulated air of analog music products. First, music went digital. Then the MP3 compression format shrunk those big music files into transportable size. After that, there was little hope of record companies making it out of the mine without some serious lung damage.

2.Napster arrived at a time when tightly controlled access to new music was still the norm. While online radio stations were starting to flourish, music lovers were becoming disillusioned with the homogenizing effects of terrestrial radio consolidation that was enabled by the 1996 Telecommunications Act.

3.n a recent Pew Internet Project survey, 15% of online adults admitted to downloading or sharing files using peer-to-peer or BitTorrent. Globally, estimates from file-sharing research firm Big Champagne place the P2P universe at more than 200 million computers with at least one peer-to-peer application installed, and operators of the popular Pirate Bay torrent tracker have identified more than 25 million "peers" who have used their site alone to exchange files.

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ALAN KHAZEI

Alan Khazei is an American social entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Be the Change, Inc., a Boston, Massachusetts based organization dedicated to building national coalitions of non-profits and citizens to enact legislation on issues such as poverty and education. Previously, Khazei served as CEO of City Year, an AmeriCorps national service program engaging 17- to 24-year-olds in a year of service in one of 19 U.S. cities and in Johannesburg, South Africa. Khazei co-founded City Year with Michael Brown, his friend and roommate at Harvard College and Harvard Law School.^[1] On September 24, 2009, he announced his candidacy in the Massachusetts special election to fill the Class 1 seat in the United States Senate made vacant by the death of Senator Ted Kennedy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Khazei)

This Cool Dude Came to Have a Press Conference at American International. He wants better Health Care, and had a dude planted in the audience. He is a Politician! O'Doyle Rules!!!

Teens and Tech

Teens and Tech

Three Observations:

1.Eighty-three percent of all the teens surveyed by the Pew Research Center state that “most” of the people they know use the internet while only 6% say that very few or none of the people they know use the internet.

2. For teens who go online themselves, 88% say most of the people they know go online compared to only 51% of teens who are not online themselves. For teenagers with parents who go online, 86% answer “most” compared to 69% of teens whose parents are not users of the internet.

3.the same number of girls and boys answer that most of the people they know use the internet while 86% of teenagers aged 15-17 and 80% of teenagers aged 12-14 also answer the same way. White teenagers are somewhat more likely to answer “most” people than African-Americans or Hispanics, although significant majorities of all races say that most people they know are on the internet. Eighty-seven percent of white teenagers, 70% of Hispanic teenagers, and 69% of African-American teenagers respond that way. Eighteen percent of African-American teenagers responded to the question by saying that very few or none of the people they knew were using the web compared to 10% of Hispanic teens and only 4% of white teens.

All informations belongs to the Pew research center and can be found: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2005/Teens-and-Technology.aspx

None of this information is mine nor does it reflect my views or opinions.

Generations

Generations Online

Three Observations:

1. over half of the adult internet population is between 18 and 44 years old

2. Fully 74% of internet users age 64 and older send and receive email, making email the most popular online activity for this age group

3. The biggest increase in internet use since 2005 can be seen in the 70-75 year-old age group. While just over one-fourth (26%) of 70-75 year olds were online in 2005, 45% of that age group is currently online