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    How Young Latinos Communicate with Friends in the Digital Age

    When it comes to socializing and communicating with friends, young Latinos (ages 16 to 25) make extensive use of mobile technology. Half say they text message (50%) their friends daily, and 45% say they talk daily with friends on a cell phone.

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    Adults and Cell Phone Distractions

    Adults are just as likely as teens to have texted while driving and are substantially more likely to have talked on the phone while driving.

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    Older Adults and Social Media

    Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010.

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    The Rise of Apps Culture

    35% of U.S. adults have cell phones with apps, but only 24% of adults actually use them. Apps users are younger, more educated, and more affluent than other cell phone users.

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    Text Message Received

    Over half of all teens send text messages to their friends daily.

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    Teens and Mobile Phones

    Text messaging rises sharply among teens and is now their most frequent form of communication with friends; 72% of those ages 12-17 now are texters and the average young text user exchanges 1,500 texts per month.

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    Teens, Cell Phones and Texting

    Fully 72% of all teens — or 88% of teen cell phone users — send text messages, up from 51% of in 2006. Among all teens, text messaging has now overtaken every other common form of interaction with their friends.

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    Teens and Mobile Phones

    Text messaging explodes as teens embrace it as the centerpiece of their communication strategies with friends.

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