---
title: "Young Adults, Mobile Phones and Social Media: Technology and the Transition to adulthood"
description: "Amanda Lenhart spoke at the National Academies “Health, Safety & Well-Being of Young Adults” Symposium on May 7 in Washington, D.C."
date: "2013-05-07"
authors:
  - name: "Amanda Lenhart"
    job_title: "Former Director of Teens and Technology Research at the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/amanda-lenhart/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2013/05/07/young-adults-mobile-phones-and-social-media-technology-and-the-transition-to-adulthood/"
categories:
  - "Mobile"
  - "Social Media"
  - "Teens & Tech"
  - "Teens & Youth"
tags:
  - "Social Networking"
  - "Teens"
---

# Young Adults, Mobile Phones and Social Media: Technology and the Transition to adulthood

Amanda Lenhart spoke at the National Academies “[Health, Safety & Well-Being of Young Adults](http://www.iom.edu/Activities/Children/ImprovingYoungAdultHealth/2013-MAY-07.aspx)” Symposium on May 7 in Washington, D.C. Amanda discussed how young adults ages 18-29 use mobile phones and social media and the ways in which this has changed how young people make the transition from childhood to adulthood today.

http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/nas-youth-healthwellbeingsymposium050713fincleanpdf