{"id":741584,"date":"2013-03-13T11:54:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T15:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=220724"},"modified":"2013-03-13T11:54:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T15:54:31","slug":"teens-are-increasingly-turning-to-smartphones-for-their-internet-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/741584","title":{"rendered":"Teens Are Increasingly Turning To Smartphones For Their Internet Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kids these days take the Internet for granted. When I was their age, I had to wait my turn to use the family desktop in the kitchen. Even then, it was on a painfully slow 56k dial-up connection. The accelerated spread of smartphone use among teenagers will ensure that they never have to experience true hardship like I did. <\/p>\n

The Pew Research Center<\/a> released a new study today that found smartphone use increased among teenagers aged 12-17 by over 10 percent last year. One in four teens are also abandoning traditional Web browsing on computers in favor of browsing the Internet via their smartphone. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe nature of teens\u2019 internet use has transformed dramatically \u2014 from stationary connections tied to shared desktops in the home to always-on connections that move with them throughout the day,\u201d said Mary Madden, Senior Researcher for the Pew Research Center\u2019s Internet Project and co-author of the report. \u201cIn many ways, teens represent the leading edge of mobile connectivity, and the patterns of their technology use often signal future changes in the adult population.\u201d<\/p>\n

To get a full sense of how connected teenagers are today, take a look at the numbers: <\/p>\n

  • 78% of teens now have a cell phone, and almost half (47%) of them own smartphones. That translates into 37% of all teens who have smartphones, up from just 23% in 2011.<\/li>\n
  • 23% of teens have a tablet computer, a level comparable to the general adult population.<\/li>\n
  • 95% of teens use the internet.<\/li>\n
  • 93% of teens have a computer or have access to one at home. Seven in ten (71%) teens with home computer access say the laptop or desktop they use most often is one they share with other family members.<\/li>\n

    No wonder teens are using the smartphones as their primary Internet access device. Sharing a computer with the rest of the family is a sure fire way to get caught browsing questionable Web sites. <\/p>\n

    Check out the rest of the study here. <\/a><\/p>\n

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    Kids these days take the Internet for granted. When I was their age, I had to wait my turn to use the family desktop in the kitchen. Even then, it was on a painfully slow 56k dial-up connection. The accelerated spread of smartphone use among teenagers will ensure that they never have to experience true […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2340,12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36V2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}