Reaching Youth Through Technology presentation at the Parish Technology Summit sponsored by Villanova University's Center for the Study of Church Management.
The frequency of teen internet use is comparable to the frequency of internet use among online adults 18 and older-> Broadband and wireless internet users go online much more frequently than dial up and stationary internet users-> and the frequency of an adult’s internet use is positively correlated with both educational attainment and household income->
age has consistently been one of the most important factors in predicting cell phone useBeyond age, there are few differences in cell phone ownership between groups of teens-> Boys and girls are just as likely to have a phone, though they do not always use it in the same way-> More than half (59%) of teens in households earning less than $30,000 annually have a cell phone, while more than three quarters of teens from wealthier families own one-> http://www->kenmcewen->com/news/files/youth-with-mobile-phone_2->jpg
Social networking – girls more than boys-> More likely with lower incomehttp://www->deccanchronicle->com/files/16teen1->jpg
Social networking – girls more than boys-> More likely with lower incomeContent sharing increasing amongst adultsOn-line purchase:a practice that has been steadily increasing since the question was first asked in December 2000, when 31% of online teens made online purchases->
Communio et Progressio6, published in 1971, highlighted a quote from Pope Pius XII's 1957 encyclical letter Miranda Prorsus, the Pastoral Instruction on the Means of Social Communication-> http://www->gordonmarcy->com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Technology-and-church->jpg
http://www->borev->net/special->jpgIn 2002, (then-) Archbishop John Foley, on behalf of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, wrote Pornography and Violence in the Communications Media which states that: