Washington: Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study published Tuesday about online behaviour. It said teens are sharing more personal information about themselves even as they try to protect their online reputations.
Teens told researchers there were too many adults on Facebook and too much sharing of teenage angst and inane details like what a friend ate for dinner.
"The key is that there are fewer adults, fewer parents and just simply less complexity," said Amanda Lenhart of the Pew Research Center, one of the study's authors. "They still have their Facebook profiles, but they spend less time on them and move to places like Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr."
In the poll, 94 per cent of teens who are social media users have a profile on Facebook - flat from the previous year. Twenty-six percent of teen social media users were on Twitter. That's more than double the figure in 2011 of 12 percent....
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10:14 AM, May 22, 2013
Washington: Forty-three per cent of US high school students admit to texting while driving - a "national epidemic" in the country - according to a new study. More than four in 10 of high school students of driving age, who were surveyed in 2011, reported texting while driving at least once in the past 30 days, according to a study to be presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual...
10:05 AM, May 06, 2013
Teens involved in activities such as music, drama and painting after school may become more depressed or sadder than peers who are not so inclined, says a new study. ...
03:56 PM, Nov 26, 2012
New Delhi: Indian teens spend 86 per cent of their time daily on Facebook followed by 54 per cent on Twitter, a survey by McAfee today said. "On a daily basis, the surveyed Indian teens spend 86 per cent of their time on Facebook followed by 54 per cent time on Twitter," McAfee's 'Secret Lives of Teens' survey said. It added that 97 per cent of teens have access to...
05:35 PM, Nov 22, 2012
Washington: Prevalence of sexting seems to be hard to pin down, as many teens continue to send sexually explicit photos to others through cellphones despite knowing its consequences, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of Utah in the US found that nearly 20 per cent teens admitted to have been engaged in sexting, which is defined as sending nude or seminude photos, or sexually explicit text messages....
11:04 AM, Jun 16, 2012
Mumbai: An increasing number of teenagers in India are using social networking sites to remain in touch with each other with mobiles as their favourite gadget, said a study. The GenY Survey 2011-12 by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) covered 12,000 high school students aged between 12-18 in 12 cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Kochi, Pune and Lucknow between July and December 2011. "While 84 per cent of the respondents had internet...
11:57 AM, May 24, 2012
BANGALORE: Bangaloreans were recently shaken after learning about a 14-year old boy stabbed to death by his friends at Hanumagiri Betta near Bangalore. Just when we thought children were on the rise on every criminals hit list, we realise that the tables have turned, and children, sparing criminals the effort, have started to commit crimes themselves.Juvenile crime is on the rise with young children between the age of 10 to...
09:35 AM, Apr 10, 2012
We, as adults, often reminisce about our adolescence with fondness. Those great years with no worry about life and career, the first crush, the first ...
11:48 AM, Mar 28, 2012
Chicago: Teens don't tweet, will never tweet - too public, too many older users. Not cool. That's been the prediction for a while now, born of numbers showing that fewer than one in 10 teens were using Twitter early on. But then their parents, grandparents, neighbours, parents' friends and anyone in-between started friending them on Facebook, the social networking site of choice for many - and a curious thing began...
11:51 AM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: To find out India's largest retail outlet, you should check out the Ministry of Defence in Delhi's South Block, where the humbly named Canteen Services Department or CSD is headquartered. The CSD is a wholesale agent, which buys directly from manufacturers and selling to 4000 Unit Run Canteens of the armed forces all over India. According to RTI documents accessed by CNN-IBN, the Unit Run Canteens have run...
10:10 AM, Jan 08, 2012
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It's world mental health day today -something none of us can afford to ignore. First the disturbing stats: The World Health Organisation estimates that ...
12:28 PM, Oct 10, 2011
Mumbai: A Facebook Casanova, who duped several teenage girls into parting with cash and jewellery by posing as an NRI on the social networking site, landed behind bars on Wednesday. Vijay Bahadur Khatri (23) is believed to have conned nearly 25 girls by befriending them on Facebook, claiming that his parents were in the United States and then 'impressing' them by spending a lot of money during his meetings with...
12:33 PM, Jul 21, 2011
'Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later...' (St. Martin's Press), by Francine Pascal: The stars of the young-adult book series "Sweet Valley" have grown up. Twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield were introduced in 'Sweet Valley High' in the early 1980s. The beautiful blond teens with peaches-and-cream skin " they're a perfect size 6 " live in Sweet Valley, Calif. Elizabeth is sensitive, thoughtful and responsible, while Jessica is more emotional, selfish...
01:49 PM, Mar 31, 2011
New York: Spending time online is normal behavior for teenagers. But too much Internet use by teens - or too little, for that matter - might be related to depression, a new study finds. The findings, reported in the journal of Pediatrics, do not mean that the Internet is to blame. For one, teens in the study who spent no time online were also at increased risk of depression symptoms....
03:58 PM, Jan 19, 2011
New York: The study, which followed more than 5,600 Australian teens, found that those with the most optimistic views of themselves and the world around them were less likely to develop depression symptoms over the next year. Whether their optimism deserves the credit is not clear. And the broader questions of whether optimism is something that can be "taught" -- and if it's even a good idea to try --...
04:56 PM, Jan 12, 2011
London: Teenage girls living in the most deprived areas are five times more likely to be assaulted than their affluent male and female peers, a British study has found. Young men are twice more likely to be a victim of assault as young women, but the link between deprivation and assault is far stronger for their female peers, the study shows. Violence is the third leading cause of death among...
01:22 PM, Dec 23, 2010
Chicago: Sophisticated brain scans accurately predicted which teens with dyslexia would learn to read within three years, a finding that could lead to better ways to treat the common learning disability, researchers said on Monday. By looking for a specific pattern of brain activity in teens with dyslexia, the researchers predicted with 90 percent accuracy which students would learn to read. "This gives us hope that we can identify which...
10:05 AM, Dec 21, 2010
A recent study has confirmed that today's teenagers are addicted to text messages so much so that they exchange almost 200-300 texts every day. ...
03:53 PM, Aug 24, 2010
