More Teens Now Listen To Music Through YouTube Than Any Other Source

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ccording to Nielsen’s latest “Music 360” report, 48% of consumers in the U.S. still see radio as the dominant way to discover new music. For almost two-thirds of U.S. teenagers, however, Google’s YouTube is now a more important source of music than radio (54%), iTunes (53%) and CDs (50%).

Despite the growing popularity of Internet music services among teens, about a third of them still bought a CD in the last year and among all respondents, 55% said physical CDs are still a very or fairly good value.

““While younger listeners opt for technologically advanced methods , traditional methods of discovery like radio and word-of-mouth continue to be strong drivers,” said Nielsen SVP David Bakula in a canned statement today. “With so many ways to purchase, consume and discover great new music, it’s no wonder that the consumer continues to access and enjoy music in greater numbers.”

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Without Social Media, 18% Of Teens Would Stop Communicating - Infographic

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18% of teens would stop communicating altogether if their favorite social networks shut down. That’s according to a recent survey of American high school and college students done by email marketing company AWeber.

According to the survey, 90% of teens are on , and an astounding 93% of teenagers use mobile phones -– the same amount that use email. 74% of teens are YouTube users, and 47% use Skype to keep up with others.

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Texting Dominates As Teens And Young Adults Make Fewer Phone Calls

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Kids, you've heard of phone calls, right? Did you know that there's an app on your smartphone that lets you talk out loud to family and friends? Ask your grandparents about it.

We're being facetious, but it's true that the stereotype of a chatty teen or young adult spending hours talking on the phone is fading. Those interactions are being replaced by the image of a kid hunched over a handset, tapping out texts, emails, or Facebook messages.

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This Generation on the Web: Chatting, Sharing, Streaming, and Securing - Infographic

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Teens are immersed in video, whether it’s using video chat applications, shooting and sharing video, or streaming video live for others to view. That said, with more video use comes more security risk. Let’s explore just how much teens chat, share, and stream, and look at a few simple steps you can take to protect yourself.

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Texting-While-Walking: A growing epidemic

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Do you often feel the sudden urge to text someone? Do you use texting as your means of communication as opposed to actually calling someone? Does the thought of leaving your phone at home and not being able to text someone frighten you?

If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, then you might be addicted to texting.

According to lawmakers, texting is becoming a serious problem not only behind the wheel, but while walking. Many states have already passed laws banning texting while driving, but recently New Jersey passed a law making it illegal to text while walking. An $85 fine will be issued to anyone who is caught walking while texting. Apparently, texting seems to have similar effects to that of alcohol consumption.

According to New Jersey Police, there were 74 crashes last year involving pedestrians who were distracted by their own texting. In a study by Stony Brook University, people have a difficult time walking in a straight line while texting. This can be confirmed by examining the 117 violations and 3 deaths due to texting while walking. People could also end up in jail…for texting. If the fines are not paid, they don’t go to collection agencies; they become warrants for arrest. Imagine going to jail for texting on your cell phone.

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All U.S. teens know dangers of text and drive, but do it anyway: survey

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Virtually all U.S. teenagers agree that texting while driving is dangerous but nearly half admit they have done it anyway, according to a new nationwide survey released on Monday.

Three-quarters of teenagers also said in an online poll that texting while driving was common among their friends, and reported that their parents text at nearly the same rate as they do while driving.

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Then vs. Now: How much did kids change in a generation (1982-2012) Infographic

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Those kids today... you may be the parent of a teenager and wondering what you've gotten yourself into. But do you have it worse than parents of the past? We all know that kids will be kids, but how much do they change over the course of a generation?

The typical teenager in the early 1980s was rocking a Walkman and had just seen E.T. Today's average kid? He has a cellphone in his pocket, he listens to Rihanna, he's less likely to finish high school and he's more likely to practice safe sex.

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Canadian teens send Lego-Astronaut 15 miles into space!?

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Why build a Gingrichian lunar colony, which would cost billions, when you can send a man nearly into space for only $400?

That's what Canadians Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad did with an albeit plastic man from Lego and a modified weather balloon.

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