Teens and Online Video (PEW)

Lenhart, A. (2012, May 3). Teens and online video.  Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/files/old-media//Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Teens_and_online_video.pdf

This article is about teens and how they use video.  I discussed teens chatting, uploading video, and live streaming.

Applications like Skype, Googletalk, and Ichat are used for online chatting, and are seeing a rise with teens 12-17 years old.  White teens, and teens from higher income homes are more likely to video chat with their friends.  Also teen who are avid users of social networks, texting, and internet are more likely to video chat.  

Only one third of the teens surveyed said they record and upload video. It is pretty even between gender and race on which teens take and upload video.  However, teens who are regular users of the internet, social networks, and texting are more likely to upload video, especially to their social networks.

Only a handful of teens surveyed said they used live streaming.  Of those that did, it was again even between gender and race.  The teens that do take part in live streaming are also avid users of the internet, social networks, and texting.  

What I took from this article is that if you used technology, you probably use ALL technology.  Teens that are using live streaming, video chatting, and uploading their own video, are also the teens always on the internet, using social networks, and texting.  They all seem to go hand in hand.

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