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  • Vanity searches now not so vain, rather becoming par for the course

    PEW has just released a new report looking at how people manage their online identity and they found: When compared with older users, young adults are more likely to restrict what they share and whom they share it with. “Contrary to the popular perception that younger users embrace a laissez-faire attitude about their online reputations,…

  • How Millennial are you?

    It seems that this quiz might also represent “how much of a parent with a young child are you”, but regardless, when I have actual Millennials scoring lower than me, I think it is time to reconsider what the term means. It seems to me that Millennial here would be “how socially active are you…

  • PEW finds that young people are finding long form blogging less “sexy”

    PEW is reporting that there is a drop in blogging among the under 30 demographic, a general lack of adoption of Twitter, except for high school girls who seem to be getting keen on it. The reason for this drop seems to be Social Media. But for all the drop in activity that might be…

  • Teens and Cell Phones over the last 5 years.

    I missed this back in August as I was away for part of the month, but PEW has gone back over their data from the past five years to take a look at how the use of mobile technologies by teens has changed. The first, and most important finding is that teens have almost caught…

  • PEW on Twitter

    Certainly an interesting stat – 11% of adults online in the US have used a microblogging service. By age: 19% of 18-24s, 20% of 25-34s with numbers dropping off after that. It seems that microblogging is really going mainstream.