Tag: DEMOGRAPHICS

The majority of Americans still rely on television as their primary news source, but, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, the Internet is gaining ground. In a Pew national survey, 66-percent of all Americans cited TV as their main source for national and international news, down from 74-percent three years ago, and 82-percent in 2002. The Internet, ...

Watch out! Old people are joining Facebook! That's one of the major findings from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which just released the results of its latest survey, 'Generations 2010.' According to the report, Internet users over the age of 74 joined social networking sites at a faster rate than any other age group this year. Since 2008, in fact, social networking use has ...

Remember that MySpace makeover that was in the works over the summer? Well, it's finally arrived, and, as expected, the new MySpace focuses more heavily on music and entertainment -- the bread and butter, apparently, of the once-mighty social network. Taking its cue from Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare, MySpace's home page will now feature a steady stream of tidbits about musicians, movies ...

This isn't exactly a news flash, but today's teenagers send a lot of text messages. According to a new report from Nielsen, kids aged between 13 and 17 send and receive an average of 3,339 texts per month -- the equivalent of more than 100 per day. Adults text their fair share, too. The average 45- to 54-year old sent and received 323 texts per month during the second quarter of 2010 -- 75-percent ...

We bloggers may be nothing more than two-dimensional cynics to you, but behind the veil of snark, self-referentialism and make-believe words lurk very real, omnivorous human beings, just like yourself. "But who are these mythical bloggers?" you ask yourself. "Where do they come from? God, I hope they aren't all British." A new report from Sysomos has your answers. Not surprisingly, the majority ...

With mid-term election season fast approaching, members of Congress are scrambling to reach out to their constituencies, plaster their campaign slogans across TV sets, and hug as many babies as possible before November. And, as you'd expect, social networking is playing a central role in many a campaign -- even those run by the eldest of lawmakers. Missouri Democratic Representative Ike ...

With all the stories of college and high school kids who flagrantly post illicit photos on Facebook, or lose their jobs over lewd message board posts, it'd be pretty easy to assume that today's youth don't really care about online privacy issues. A new study from Berkeley, however, finds that, despite all evidence to the contrary, privacy actually does matter to younger generations of Web ...

Share It doesn't take long for little kids to figure out that when they touch a hot stove, they get burned. For whatever reason, though, older human beings still haven't learned that clicking on spam can burn them with equal ferocity. According to a recent report from the Ipsos Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), people are continuing to intentionally open spam e-mails and even click ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/03/10/packed-with-tweens-and-bands-myspace-not-dead-just-slow/'; Admit it. You'd pretty much given up on MySpace. Struggling to keep pace with the two-headed monster of Facebook and Twitter, the once proud social network seems to have both feet in the grave. But don't go signing that death certificate just yet; MySpace may be slow, but thanks to a new ...

Teenagers, those impetuous stewards of the fountain of youth, are always assumed to be at the forefront of online trends. After all, they're the ones who help Grandma Google, or explain Facebook to Uncle Phil. So what does it mean, then, when teens flock to Facebook and MySpace, but neglect their 140-character cousin? Is Twitter a high school outcast? The answer, according to one recent study, is ...

In an apparent confirmation of what everyone's always suspected, and what those commercials have been telling us for years, a report released Monday from consumer-research firm NPD claims to show that Mac users are not only richer than their PC counterparts, but "hipper" as well. The results reveal that the percentage of computer-owning households with a Mac shot up to 12-percent, a 4-percent ...

It's hard to think of Twitter as the underdog, but it certainly isn't in the cool crowd. The micro-blogging site is defying long-held beliefs that it takes a teenage army to bring popularity on the Web. That's right: Twitter hasn't caught on with teens, yet. The New York Times reports only about 11-percent of Twitter users are between the ages of 12 and 17. So, just how has Twitter become a social ...

Two independent studies show that Twitter is all about man-on-man action, and that teens are having a hard time embracing microblogging, respectively. Researchers over at Harvard Business surveyed 300,542 users in May, discovering that, though men and women for the most part follow the same number of tweeters, a man is twice as likely to follow another man than he is a woman. In addition, a ...