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Mar 13, 2013Marketplace Tech
The Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project has a new study that looks at teens and their use of computers, tablets and smartphones. Looks like smartphone use by teenagers is skyrocketing. As of late last fall, 37 percent of U.S. ...
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Mar 13, 2013AP TV
More young people have smart phones -- and they're often using those phones as the primary way they access the Web, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. How much should parents monitor?
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Mar 13, 2013Associated Press
Keep computers in a common area so you can monitor what your kids are doing. It's a longstanding directive for online safety -- but one that's quickly becoming moot as more young people have mobile devices, often with Internet access.
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Nov 21, 2012Digital Life on Today
Parents of online teens are concerned about what exactly their kids do online, but they're also wary of how their children are being tracked by advertisers, according to a new report.
The findings come at a time when the Federal Trade C...
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Oct 9, 2012Chicago Tribune
My mother recently announced a desire to join Facebook. While at first the thought of my 65-year-old mom "poking" people or "liking" things scared me, I soon realized this could be a good thing. And according to a Pew Internet Project Tracking S...
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Jul 12, 2012NPR
Click here to listen to the audio version of this story on NPR.
Facebook started as a social network for colle...
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Jun 23, 2012USA Today
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Nugent says he wants to stay connected with his four daughters and grandchildren.
Mary Madden, senior research specialist at the Pew Research Center, says Nugent's reasoning is common.
A recent Pew survey found...
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Feb 25, 2012SFGate
Stephanie Watanabe spent nearly four hours Thursday night unfriending about 700 of her Facebook friends - and she isn't done yet.
She's not being antisocial, but research released Friday shows Watanabe is part of a growing trend amon...
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Feb 24, 2012msnbc.com
Users are getting a lot more selective, deleting comments, photo tags, and even friends at a record rate, according to a new study released Friday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Pew is calling this phenomenon "the prun...
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Jan 30, 2012Associated Press
Teens tout the ease of use and the ability to send the equivalent of a text message to a circle of friends, often a smaller one than they have on crowded Facebook accounts. They can have multiple accounts and don't have to use their real names. Th...
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