Nearly two-thirds (64%) of online teenagers create some kind of content, up from 57 percent two years earlier. Since that previous study, the percentage of online teens that have blogs rose from 19 percent in 2004 to 28 percent. Young girls are leading the way in that respect, with 35 percent of them blogging, compared to just 20 percent of online boys.
Pew found that:
70% talk daily with friends on a cell phone
60% send text messages daily
54% instant message
47% send messages daily over social network sites
46% talk to friends on a landline phone
35% spend time with friends in person daily
22% send email every day to friends
"Access to social networks and cell phones has opened up new channels for today's teens," said Mary Madden, Senior Research Specialist and an author of the report. "New technology increases the overall intensity and frequency of their communication with friends, with email being the one glaringly uncool exception in their eyes."
You hear that? Uncool.
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