Teens and Online Videos

Lenhart, A. ( 2012) Teens and Online Videos. Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/2012/05/03/teens-online-video/

Teenagers are living in a world of technology where using the internet is often a daily task in the United States. Ninety-five percent of teens between the ages of 12 to 17 use the internet according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. The survey was conducted to look at what percentage of those teens engaged in video oriented activities. What was discovered is that nearly 37% of online teens say they have video chatted with someone using such applications as Skype, iChat or Googletalk.

 The difference in gender is online girls are more likely to report video chatting than boys. In regards to race, white teens are more likely to report video chatting than online Latino teens at 41% compared to 28%. There was no significant difference between online black youth and either white or Latino youth in video chatting. A parent form of education plays a significant role when it comes to teens video chatting. Teens who go online who come from families with the lowest level of parental education are much less likely than others to video chat. 

Teens who are frequent internet users, texters and social media users are all more likely to video chat than others. The rest of the survey shows how social media plays an important role in recording, uploading and streaming videos. I find this not to be surprising since many social networking sites allow you to create and upload videos to share such as Twitter and Instagram. 

I believe that access and exposure is the key to using more technology. If a child as never been exposed or have the opportunity to use video chatting, he or she is less likely to use it regardless of gender, race or social economic background.

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