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Parents, Teens, Texting and TV

When is the message “What are you doing?” not nosy parental intrusion?  When it’s asked via a text message.  This weekend, that message, texted by my husband to our son, got the response “Watching the Bears”.  A phone call at the same time would likely have gone unanswered.
Parents are finding that often the best way [...]

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What We Call Teens: Young Adults, Gen Z, Tweens, or “Just People”

There exists a bewildering array of names for those not-yet-fully grown individuals commonly known as “teens”.
Marketers of a demographic bent are fond of using the “Generation Y” moniker for the offspring of Baby Boomers.  Gen Y’s are also sometimes referred to as “Echo Boomers”, and these citizens are already getting a little long in the [...]

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Teens and Young Adults – what’s on their minds? ChaCha knows!

At ChaCha we have a window into the minds of Teens and Young Adults, who represent approximately 82% of our userbase.  Some questions are perennial favorites that are asked consistently on a daily basis (just check out the topics on the ChaCha.com homepage), but new hot topics are constantly emerging.
Our customers do truly see us [...]

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Teens And Mobile: Is The Love Affair Ongoing?

Reblogged from:  Mark Walsh / Mobile Intelligencer, Thursday, August 20, 2009, 2:07 PM
The Pew Internet & American Life Project says it’s working on its latest survey on how teens and their parents use mobile phones. The latest results won’t come out until early 2010, so Pew repackaged some of data from surveys on teens and [...]

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