Think that user generated content is still only the domain of a relatively small few? Well a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that the next generation at least is switched on and producing content.
According to the study, 59% of all American teenagers engage in at least one form of online content creation. Of those 35% of all teen girls blog, compared with 20% of online boys, and 54% of girls post photos online compared with 40% of online boys. Boys however like their video, with 19% of boys posting video online vs. 10% of girls.
Other figures from the study:
- 39% of online teens share their own artistic creations online, such as artwork, photos, stories, or videos
- 33% create or work on webpages or blogs for others, including those for groups they belong to, friends, or school assignments
- 28% have created their own online journal or blog, up from 19% in 2004.
- 27% maintain their own personal webpage
- 26% remix content they find online into their own creations
Interestingly the presumed dominance of social networking sites (such as Facebook and MySpace) amongst teens was not reflected in the study, which found that only 55% of teens online use a social networking site. The flip side to that is that the presumption that sites such as MySpace may have peaked may be untrue if 45% of teens aren’t using one of these sites already.
The full study is available here (pdf).
I would have thought 100% of teens produce content online…
Do you know what I hate about teenagers? I hate how you can be having a conversation with them and they will start texting in MID SENTANCE while you are talking directly to them. It’s like you momentarily vanished.
And you just KNOW the context of that text message was SOOO important.
lol
D@NM teenagers with their rap music!
27% maintain their own pages?? that’s absurd–who did they sample?
I’m nineteen, and almost none of my friends have ever launched a personal webpage–unless, of course, you’re talking about myspace/facebook/etc.
I find these findings odd as well. I agree with #1 and #3. I believe that a LARGE portion of teenagers share their photos online with their friends.
Also I don’t know a large number of people coding their own websites. Unless they’ve throwing in the large amount of money for Dreamweaver or jumped on with Frontpage. I don’t know many others that write from scratch like myself.
I’d like a second source.
/how are the stats collected?
if i just publish some stats on the net, you will report it?
80% of mom is a man, and 130% of those mom also have a dog, and 45% of the dogs love cats.
This information is taken into account.
The fact that only 55% of teens online use a social networking site doesn’t surprise me at all. Web-native youngsters know that applications like Facebook are an intent of creating closed systems, whereas the RSS-enable 2.0 webscape IS a social network itself.
This is why there is soooo much totally stupid stuff on the internet!
fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
LOL Ballmer
Tons of kids have web pages and that doesn’t mean they bought software and coded the web pages. There are a ton of free web page services out there that don’t require knowing much coding at all. I only know because my little sister has done just that. Although, I wouldn’t be surprised if many users considered their myspace page their web page also.
Those stats are BS!!!
Ballmer- stop spamming damn, you can’t even get a domain name. Shouldn’t his ip be banned or something, and wtf kinda blog is that.
I would have say more than 59%…
So, after the UGC, the next hype is the TGC – Teen Generated Content?
The value of UGC (and TGC) is depending on the talent of the U|T, the users|teens, and we can see on Youtube, MySpace etc that only very few users are talented.
UGC sites are an efficient way to filter talented people, which could monetize their talent, from untalented people producing crappy videos or music or uploading illicit material.
hmm, it is interesting how there are a larger percentage of girls using the internet, social networking and posting photos etc, but the stereotype of a person who actually know anything about what they are using on the internet is male. that is probably worded badly, what i mean is, the programmers, and web developers are stereotypically males, and according to the statistics they are developing the web for females,
interesting, think about it.
I always get rather annoyed when someone claims they have made a website or they have a web page, then when you go check it out, it turns out to be made with wordpress or piczo or something along those lines, some people even claiming their myspace is their web page. most likely, these statistics did not define a web page meant. I myself am a teenager ( no I do not start texting in the middle of a conversation) and I know that out of my school year group of 190 people, only around 7 people have ever done proper coding for a web page, and only 3 of them know how do do it well, so they have definitely got some of their statistics wrong. but I am wondering if they are counting the absolute crap i have seen some people come up with and call it user content and web pages.
The weird part is, they do not question how the
“33% create or work on webpages or blogs for others, including those for groups they belong to, friends, or school assignments”
statistic affects their other results. I myself have made web pages for other people who the use them, don’t you think some of the teens that had one made for them may have counted that as making their own because it was their idea and they used it ?!?!
http://www.loopaustralia.com is not my blog by the way, it is a friends, so don’t start going on about how after I bagged wordpress that I myself use it, because I don’t not that I think it is bad.
wow that is a long comment
, and how many spelling mistakes did I make 
#14 It’s funny that only you took notice of the high female stats. It may be, may be not surprising, but actually it’s the consequences that are interesting. If women are to be more represented in the web than men, and web is to dominate the content world, the web-society will move far away from a male-dominated model society now is.
59% of teens create content online, the other 41% are the ones in the videos being happy slapped.
The really important take away here is that this is a group with a media habit already established.
Research has shown that media consumption (and now media participation!) habits are established early in life and that this group will keep that habit their entire life. Today they are teen agers – in 10 years – could be your boss.
The evidence going back at least several decades shows that the generations that preceded these teens were primarily radio, newspaper or TV consumers. Habits for their generation that was established in their youth. Look at newspapers, for example, they serve the same group of readers as before – only they are older now.
About the disagreements about teens creating web sites… I am 13 myself and most of my friends have used some sort of site builder (Bravenet and Freewebs) to make a personal homepage at some point. I usually prefer to hand code something when I’m not using a CMS though.
Both my kids at 9 and 11 have used the free web page sites to create homepages. Although they don’t know how to “code”, the online software makes it easy and they “paste” the code if necessary.
I think the point of this study was to show how people come to rely on the internet for communication. A few years back, I was working on a Commodore Vic20 computer with 5k of memory. I remember the first time I saw a fax machine and the first time I saw a “mouse” attached to the computer. Early computers didn’t even have hard drives and you had to load your “software” was a cassette recorder. How times have changed!
It forgot to ask than the the teen age those who use drug and un-want -things are general lost there way and aim. This is sadden and for the world because it create bar in the way of development.
He even fail to create the impact about how there work.
It even use the misuse and wrong use of the online.Some of they are even use for just sex and begin troy of mental sick person. some of them even are not underline sex is not the game of body but it is the mean of united two spirit in one flame.
Some of the citizen are even not have the person life but there only enjoy the m/c.
Some teenagers are quite proficient with code.
http://www.worl...causeonline.org is a nonprofit organization created by teenagers and designed by a 17 year old.
However, the majority of teen created websites are made with the aide of some kind of site builder.
The way the stats were collected is very important. There might be response bias or some altering of t-scores in order to fit a certain model. Also the randomization may have not been stratified , thus providing skewed results.
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