Teens & Distracted Driving

75% of all American teens ages 12-17 own a cell phone, and 66% use their phones to send or receive 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 cohort are cell texters.

Texting at the wheel is less common than having a conversation on the phone while driving. Looking at teens ages 16-17 who have a cell phone, 52% say they have talked on a cell phone while driving. That translates into 43% of all American teens ages 16-17.

Fully 75% of all American teens ages 12-17 now own a cell phone, and 66% use their phones to send or receive 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% text.

Over time, cell phones have become increasingly important fixtures in Americans’ lives and public concern over their use while driving has grown. At the time of the 2006 survey, just 35% of adult cell phone owners said they used the text messaging feature on their phones. By April 2009, the use of text messaging by cell phone owners had nearly doubled to 65%.

The State of Music Online

Information received from pewinternet.org

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.

The revolutionary file-sharing application created by college student Shawn Fanning officially launched in June of 1999.

Project data shows that 69% of online Americans have already taken advantage of some form of cloud computing such as using webmail services, storing data online, or using other applications whose functionality is located on the web.

Alan Khazei

• Alan Khazei is one of many who is running for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the late Ted Kennedy.
• He is a non profit leader who has raised money to fund his campaign.
• Khazei is a democrat who strongly believes in the fight for health care.
• his parents were immigrants and he was able to graduate from Harvard and become a CEO
• He has had the privilege of working with Ted Kennedy in the past
• His main focuses are on education, energy and climate change, economy, health care, foreign policy, middle east policy, casino gambling, and veterans and military families.

Generations online 2009

Generation Y, or young adults generally 18-32 years old who grew up in the Information Age, have been dubbed the ‘Net Generation.’ But, while these “digital natives” may be savvier with their gadgets and more keen on new uses of technology, their elders in Generation X, the Baby Boomers and older generations tend to dominate internet use in other areas.

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. Much as we watch demographic and age groups move up in “degrees of access” on our “thermometers,”¹ we can probably expect to see these bars become more level as time goes on. For now, though, young people dominate the online population.006-2008.

instant messaging, social networking, and blogging have gained ground as communications tools, but email remains the most popular online activity, particularly among older internet users. Fully 74% of internet users age 64 and older send and receive email, making email the most popular online activity for this age group. At the same time, email has lost some ground among teens; whereas 89% of teens claimed to use email in 2004, just 73% currently say they use email.

Information obtained by pewinternet.org