The above presentation by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project (@Pew_Internet) explores 9 commonly held assumptions about how teens and young adults use technology:
1. Everyone uses the Internet.
2. Every teen has a cell phone.
3. All teens text unimaginably large numbers of messages a day.
4. Teens no longer call anyone on the phone.
5. Parents and K-12 schools struggle with management of teens’ phones.
6. Teens have been supplanted by older adults on social networks.
7. Teens love Twitter.
8. Young adults don’t care about privacy, particularly online.
9. Teens are active creators of content online.