• by Jack Loechner , Staff Writer @mp_research, January 11, 2008

One Quarter of Teens Are Super Communicators

The Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that 93% of teens use the internet, and more of them than ever are treating it as a venue for social interaction -- a place where they can share creations, tell stories, and interact with others. 64% of online teens ages 12-17 have participated in one or more among a wide range of content-creating activities on the internet, up from 57% of online teens in a similar survey at the end of 2004.

Girls continue to dominate most elements of content creation:

• 35% of all teen girls blog, compared with 20% of online boys
• 54% of wired girls post photos online compared with 40% of online boys.
• 19% of Online boys post video content online, compared to 10% of online girls who have posted a video online where others could see it.

47% of online teens have posted photos where others can see them, and 89% of those teens who post photos say that people comment on the images at least "some of the time." Many teens, however, limit access to content that they share.

28% of the entire teen population are super-communicators (teens who have a host of technology options for dealing with family and friends, including traditional landline phones, cell phones, texting, social network sites, instant messaging, and email) and they are more likely to be older girls.

Among the latest survey findings:

• 39% of online teens share their own artistic creations online, such as artwork, photos, stories, or videos, up from 33% in 2004.
• 33% create or work on webpages or blogs for others, including those for groups they belong to, friends, or school assignments, basically unchanged from 2004 (32%).
• 28% have created their own online journal or blog, up from 19% in 2004.
• 27% maintain their own personal webpage, up from 22% in 2004.
• 26% remix content they find online into their own creations, up from 19% in 2004.

In addition to those core elements of content creation,

• 55% of online teens ages 12-17 have created a profile on a social networking site such as Facebook or MySpace
• 47% of online teens have uploaded photos where others can see them, though many restrict access to the photos in some way
• 14% of online teens have posted videos online

For more from the release, please visit PewResearch here, or read the full report here.