Most teens use social networking sites

MOST TEENS USE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
[SOURCE: Financial Times, AUTHOR: Aline van Duyn]
More than half (55 per cent) of American children aged between 12 and 17 use online social networking sites such as MySpace, research by the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found. MySpace and Facebook and numerous smaller alternatives allow people to create web pages and fill them with text, pictures and video and also exchange messages with others in the network. Among 12- and 13-year olds, 37 per cent say they have created online profiles, with 63 per cent of the 14- to 17-year olds having done that, the Pew study shows. Older girls are the biggest users of the sites, with 70 per cent of 15- to 17-year-old girls having created profiles. MySpace, which turned three years old this month and is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, is by far the biggest social networking destination, reflected in its global tally of more than 145m members. Of the teens surveyed, 48 per cent said they visited social networking websites daily or more often, with 22 per cent visiting several times a day.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0edd645e-9e80-11db-ac03-0000779e2340.html
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* Social Networking Websites and Teens
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/198/report_display.asp