Online Activities of Teens

Home obtain matters because online teens who access the web from home are more likely to access the net multiple times each day than teens who access the web from somewhere aside from home. Home entrée convenience enables frequent internet use in ways in which school or library-based internet access doesn't.

While the share of teens that access the web from home has stayed relatively constant, the percentage of teens who report accessing the web from school, from someone else's house, and the library has varied over time.

Online teens still lead active offline lives.

Online teens are quite active offline, though less so than specific subgroups of users like content creators and social network users. Half the web teens during this survey report being a part of a faculty sports program, 36% report being a part of a faculty club-like drama or language, 42% report participating in another education like the band, and 58% report participating in an after-school club or sports program that's not affiliated with a school. These percentages are according to the numbers reported within the 2004 Teens and fogeys survey.

Teens' internet Use, Operation Sound Function

While teen internet usages around social networks and content creation are getting much recent attention, teens still engage during a sort of activities online that cross the spectrum, from information seeking to communicative and artistic endeavors. While content creation is a crucial and growing online activity, the two hottest internet activities among teens within the most up-to-date Pew Internet Teens and fogy’s survey need to do with operation instead of communicating.

Over half of teens use social networking sites.

Ultimately 55% of online teens during this survey reported using social network sites like Myspace or Facebook. Usually, girls are more likely than boys to use social networking sites (49% of boys compared with 61% of girls), and older teens are more likely to go to these sites than younger teens (47% of these age 12-14 say they are going to social networking sites compared with 63% of 15-17-year-olds). While only a touch over half all online teens reports having ever gone to a social network site, 70% percent of online girls aged 15-17 say they need doing. For more detail on this subject, observes the teenagers and Social Networking data memo.

More than half of all teens visit video-sharing sites.

In the most up-to-date Pew Internet survey, 57% of online teens said they watched videos on video-sharing sites like YouTube and Google Video. Online teens with parents who have colossal income and education are more likely to go to video-sharing sites like YouTube or Google Video than other teens. Older online teens, particularly older online boys (ages 15-17), are more likely to report watching videos on video-sharing sites like YouTube and Google Video than younger teens.

Wealthy teens are more likely to interact in multimedia Web activities.

This survey includes various online activities that we've not included in previous surveys, like getting to video sharing sites, taking social sites, and downloading podcasts. Online teens whose parents are palsy and well educated are more likely to engage with a broader range of those newer internet activities. As noted within the Online Video report, wealthier people are more likely to possess broadband connections that enable access to a more decadent layout of online functions.

Almost half of the teens say they play games online.

Fully 67% of teens report playing computer or console games (such as Xbox or PlayStation), and 49% of these teens say that they play games online. Boys are more likely than girls to play computer or console games, and younger teens are more likely to play computer or console games than their older counterparts. Furthermore, teens who play video games are more likely to report that they hang around with their friends face-to-face than teens who don't play video games. Teens that play video games also are likely to travel online more frequently than non-gaming teens. Teens whose parents earn but $30,000 annually are more likely than wealthier teens to play computer or console games and to play those games offline.

Teens are more likely to have desktop computers than the other sort of digital technology.

Almost three-quarters of teens (72%) own a personal computer, compared with 63% who own cell phones, 51% who own iPods/MP3 players, 25% who own laptops, and eight who own personal digital devices. Older teens are slightly more likely to have these devices, and teenage girls, especially older teen girls, are more likely to have cell phones than their male counterparts. Not surprisingly, the extra money their parents earn, the more likely teens are to have an outsized array of gadgets. Older teens are more likely to report payable desktop computers than younger teens.