Social Media and Young Adults Review

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Lenhart, A.; Purcell, K.; Smith, Aaron; and Zickuhr. February 3, 2010. Social Media & Mobile Internet Use Among Teens and Young Adults The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project studies the behavior and attitudes towards cell phones and highlights the generation of teens and young adults who use cell phones, a setting between 18-29- year- olds. This project conducted up to 100 surveys and wrote up to 200 reports on teens and internet use, as Lenhart, Purcell, Smith, and Zickuhr explained in the research. She also reported with other colleagues how their findings on social media and internet use situated among older children compared within the data between adolescents and older children. Lenhart’s current data draws a hypothesis conducted from this study-this research had started between June and August of 800 teenagers between 12 and 17 who use cell phones as a source of how they behave online more than they do in the real world. How often do they behave online than they do in the real world when it comes to social media? According to this research, about 93 percent of adolescents between ages 12 and 17 go online to communication more often than in real life, so in comparison, adults are no less likely to be online in September 2009. On December 2009, Lenhart claimed that 74 percent of adults are communicating with friends on the Internet. Geser, H. (2004). Towards a sociological theory of the mobile phone. Retrieved July 12, 2005, from http://socio.ch/mobile/t_geser1.pdf One of the main functional reasons for mobile phone use is the functionality of their life and concerns. During adolescence, time transcends the boundaries of families and generates networks with peers and classmates. Geser suggests that ... ... middle of paper ... ...matics and Informatics, 20, 349-364. Print. This short review explains that in recent years, wireless devices such as phones, pagers, and PCs became more popular than any other devices among users with experience on how to use it. For instance, cell phone subscribers in the US have greatly increased from 109 million in 2000 to 148.6 million in 2002, the research by eMarketer stated (LetsTalk cell phone survey, 2002); Aoki and Downes explained that the introduction of the article highlights the increase of cell phones. To test the purpose of how the Americans own cell phones and create their own interest of technology, Aoki and Downes use the data from the Scarborough Research study by Joseph P. Schackner made in 2002. Studies on social impacts on cell phones had not been producing enough information about mobile phones and had been like this until a few years ago.

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