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Teens Don’t Twitter
Z komentářůRodney got his mobile phone bill the other day and was shocked to see that Echo, his 16 year-old daughter, had the month before sent or received more than 14,000 SMS text messages from her mobile phone. Yes, Echo has unlimited texting, but among her friends this behavior isn’t unusual and it says a lot about how media habits are changing in our culture.
A Neilsen study from the second quarter of 2008, for example, says that mobile phone users age 13-17 send or receive an average of 1742 texts per month, which would only require 7.25 hours by my reckoning.
My 14 year old son and his 13 year old girlfriend explain it thus:
SMS is for one-on-one private communications, Facebook (iPhone edition) is for broadcast to your tribe, all of whom are pre-vetted via the friend process.
Twitter is for old guys, most of whom want to influence you in some way, mostly so they gain something. Avoid…
Email is something the teacher makes you use, and when you check it there is often mail from gross people that you don’t know about making certain parts of someone’s body bigger. Avoid at all costs…



