Teen Content Creators and Consumers

The Pew Internet and American Life Project has published a paper that explores the behaviours and actions of Teens on the Internet. Titled - Teen Content Creators and Consumers (pdf) - the paper discusses ideas around:

  • More than half of online teens have created content for the internet
  • most teen downloaders think that getting free music files is easy to do.
  • Older girls lead teens in blogging
  • 19% of online teens maintain a blog

This paper is a very good read that may help you discover how this demographic group uses this medium that we all develop for.