{"id":741509,"date":"2013-03-13T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T04:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=619664"},"modified":"2013-03-13T00:01:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T04:01:34","slug":"study-one-in-four-teens-access-the-internet-primarily-through-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/741509","title":{"rendered":"Study: One in four teens access the internet primarily through mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to know what U.S. smartphone adoption might look like next year? You&#8217;d do well to start by taking a look at today&#8217;s teenagers, who are owning smartphones and accessing the internet through mobile in increasing numbers.<\/p> <p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/Reports\/2012\/Teens%E2%80%90and%E2%80%90Privacy.aspx\" >new study set to release Tuesday night<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/\" >the Pew Research Center<\/a>\u00a0finds that one in four American teenagers accesses the internet primarily through mobile; about three quarters of those teens own cell phones, and half of that group uses\u00a0smartphones. The report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/Reports\/2012\/Teens%E2%80%90and%E2%80%90Privacy.aspx\" >titled &#8220;Teens and Technology 2013,&#8221;<\/a> surveyed\u00a0802 teenagers (ages 12-17), as well as their parents, to better understand how U.S. teenagers are using technology.<\/p> <p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/08\/13\/carrier-data-confirms-it-half-of-us-now-owns-a-smartphone\/\" >The major mobile carriers in the United States found that adult smartphone adoption<\/a> in the United States hit 50 percent in August 2012, and teenagers aren&#8217;t far behind, nearing almost 40 percent at this point.<\/p> <p>Here were some statistics we found most interesting from the report, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/Reports\/2012\/Teens%E2%80%90and%E2%80%90Privacy.aspx\" >can be found on the Pew Research Center website<\/a>:<\/p> <ul> <li>Almost all teenagers &#8212; 95 percent &#8212; use the internet, and 93 percent can access a computer at home<\/li> <li>74 percent of teenagers get on the internet somewhat occasionally via phones and tablets, and one in four of them access the internet primarily through mobile<\/li> <li>78 percent of teenagers own a cell phone and 47 percent of those teenagers have smartphones specifically<\/li> <li>37 percent of all teenagers in the United States own smartphones, an increase from the 23 percent in 2011<\/li> <li>Tablet computer ownership marks 23 percent of teenagers, which is about the same percentage among U.S. adults<\/li> <li>While girls and boys are equally likely to own smartphones, girls aged 14-17 are much more likely than boys of the same age to get on the intenret primarily through mobile (34 percent of girls versus 24 percent of boys)<\/li> <li>Interesting, teenagers from lower income families are more likely to access the internet primarily through cell (30 percent of teens\u00a0from households earning less than $30,000 per year, compared to 14 percent from households earning\u00a0$50,000-$74,999 and\u00a024 percent from households at more than $75,000.)<\/li> <\/ul> <p>And probably to no one&#8217;s suprise, teenagers are the age group most likely to be accessing the internet, still out pacing older users, particularly those over 65, by a wide margin:<\/p> <p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?attachment_id=619691\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-619691\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"Pew adult internet teenagers consumption mobile\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/screen-shot-2013-03-12-at-12-44-51-pm.png?w=708&#038;h=453&#038;fit=708%2C453&#038;resize=708%2C453\" width=\"708\" height=\"453\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-619691\" \/><\/a><\/p> <br \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?resize=1%2C1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><p><a 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