http://www.worldcauseonline.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.

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!

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.

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 ?!?!

some interesting thought i believe, and shows you that you cannot take everything as you see it, especially survey data

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.

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.

80% of mom is a man, and 130% of those mom also have a dog, and 45% of the dogs love cats.

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.