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pewinternet:

world-shaker:

The students…they’re getting smarter.

Data note: One of our recent teens reports found that half of teens send 50 or more text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month, and one in three send more than 100 texts a day, or more than 3,000 texts a month. 

However, when it comes to possession of a mobile phone during the school day, just 12% of teens with cell phones say that they can have a cell phone at their school at all times. A majority of teens (62%) say that they can have a cell phone at school but not in class, and another quarter (24%) attend schools that forbid cell phones altogether. 

thenextweb:

While Google might be taking off (with over 20 million users and counting) the service is mainly dominated by only a few names. As this visualization shows, most of the activity is centered around only a few people, with tenuous links to the “other half”. (via 48% of Google users have never made a public post - TNW Google)

pewinternet:

What’s the one word you would use to describe your experiences using social networking sites? Most Americans say “good.”

When social networking users were asked for one word to describe their experiences using social networking sites, “good” was the most common response. Overall, positive responses far outweighed the negative and neutral words that were associated with social networking sites (more than half of the respondents used positive terms). Users repeatedly described their experiences as “fun,” “great,” “interesting” and “convenient.” Less common were superlatives such as “astounding,” “necessity,” and “empowering.”

More from our latest report, “65% of online adults use social networking sites”