• San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, December 21, 2007 11 AM

Social networking sites are inciting more teens to create content online. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, nearly two-thirds of online teens have created something, from personal Web pages to online videos. The study credits social networks like MySpace and Facebook with furthering the trend. More than half of the survey's respondents said they have a social networking profile.

Other results: 39 percent of online teens said they've shared content, up from 33 in 2004. Almost 30 percent have their own online journal or blog, up from 19 percent in 2004, and a whopping 26 percent have remixed content through mashups, up from 19 percent.

"Social networking is this fabulous opportunity to share content," said Amanda Lenhart, who co-authored the report. "You're not just posting it in a vacuum. You're also getting feedback from people." Fred Stuzman, co-founder of ClaimID.com, added, "there's going to come a day when most teens have information online, and it's not a bad thing. It's the norm."

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