Tag: TEENS

Taking a look at comScore's comparison of 2009 vs. 2010 webmail use, a couple things are pretty clear. Older users are finally starting to see how Web-based email is useful and getting into the swing of things. That, in turn, seems to be causing teenagers to turn up their noses and flee services like Gmail and Hotmail in droves. OK, maybe it's not the increase in older users causing teens to ...

There may be a lot of hype about Twitter as the trendiest communication tool out there, but it turns out the service isn't as cool as people make it out to be. Why? Because kids aren't using it at nearly the same rate as older demographics. According to a recent Nielsen survey, only 16% of Twitter's users are under 25. To put that number in perspective, under-25's make up a quarter of the universe ...

Legally old enough teens cannot buy songs from online services legitimately, because they all require a credit card, which not many teens have. Not only is this helping to drive the piracy rate among teens, it also illustrates another critical piece of information on why piracy is so rampant. The original problem of piracy is one of the service providers not giving consumers what they want. Let me ...