Teens and Distracted Driving

Ratio 1 of 4 of American teens say they have texts while driving. I believe that in this new generation and time, it is crucial for us to learn to how to multi task in dangerous situations but not to the point where one has to do that all the time. Too much of something is always harmful and dangerous. Texting on the road or talking isn't good when you do that more than 3x a week unless you are bluetoothing it up or waiting until you stop somewhere.

According to pewinternet.org, boys and girls are equally likely to report texting behind the wheel as well as riding with texting drivers.

Among all teens ages 12-17, 48% say they have been in a car when the driver wastexting.¹⁰ The older teens in our sample reported a higher incidence of this experience; while 32% of teens ages 12-13 say they have been passengers in a car while the driver was texting at the wheel, 55% of those ages 14-17 report this. Looking only at those who are of driving age—16 and 17 year-olds—the rate jumps to 64%.

(pewinternet.org)

State of Music Online

Napster came along about ten years ago and boom!, the music sales died tonight. Sites such as this then replicated like Kazaa, Limewire, Bearshare, etc. to share songs legally, but illegal for the FCC whom is tune with the music industry.

Napster arrived at a time when tightly controlled access to new music was still the norm. While online radio stations were starting to flourish, music lovers were becoming disillusioned with the homogenizing effects of terrestrial radio consolidation that was enabled by the 1996 Telecommunications Act. Their frustrations were made clear when the Federal Communications Commission reviewed these rules in 2003 and opened them up for public comment. The FCC received more than 15,000 letters, emails and other documents. This was one of the largest responses in FCC history, with most writing in to oppose further media consolidation.⁴ Before Napster, internet users had limited access to digital music through legitimate channels. After Napster’s software allowed fans to share their entire catalog of music files online, the music ecology radically changed. (pewinternet.org)

ALAN Khazei- Running For Congressman

This guy here, Alan khazei is the man running for Ted Kennedy's former seat in congress. Alan is a well known leader. Alan Khazei is the Founder and CEO of Be the Change, Inc., a Boston, MA-based non-profit dedicated to strengthening American democracy by uniting citizens, social entrepreneurs, the service world and leaders from every sector of American society behind a bold agenda for change. Be the Change taps the wisdom, experience, and networks of practitioners, policy and thought leaders to craft post-partisan policy solutions to our greatest challenges, and builds powerful national coalitions to strengthen social movements in a few key issue areas. (www.californiawomen.org)

Prior to founding Be the Change, Inc., Khazei was co-founder and CEO of City Year, a youth service corps that helped inspire the development of AmeriCorps, America’s national service program. Founded in 1988 with 50 young people in service in Boston, City Year is now a global organization operating in 20 cities in America and in Johannesburg, South Africa, with an annual budget of more than $60 million. City Year annually enlists more than 1,500 young adults from all backgrounds for a rewarding year of full-time community service, civic engagement and leadership development. (www.californiawomen.org)

He has received honorary doctorates from Northeastern University, Suffolk University and Mount Ida College.
Khazei currently serves on the Board of Directors of City Year, New Profit, Inc., and Share Our Strength, and on the Advisory Boards of the Partnership for Public Service and the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He served as a fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics in the fall of 2006.
Khazei is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and currently lives in Brookline, MA with his wife, daughter, and son. (www.Californiawomen.org)

Teens and technology: Risks

Personal usage of teens are being tooken advantage of by their privacy being breached because of hackers. 89% percent of teens Send or read E:mail which is a main reason why they are the one's the most at risk for privacy theft and personal information being taken by the unruly hackers that have no remorse for some individuals life. It probably because they stink as a person. 73% of home teen users go online from a computer located in an open family area reported by pewinternet.com

PewInternet.com info

• Eight in ten wired teens play games online.
• When compared to adults, teens are more than twice as likely to play games online; 81% of online teens say they are gamers, compared to 32% of online adults who say this.
• Teens are also more inclined to use the internet to get information about a prospective school; 57% of online teens use the internet to search for a school they might attend, while 45% of online adults do this

Range Of Internet Uses

According to Pewinternet.org, 78% of 12-17 year-old Internet users play games online, This is comparing with 73% of online teens who email, the second most popular activity for this age group. Online teens play more games than any other previous generation.

Older users (33-44) called generation x, leads in online shopping. Online shopping is lower among the youngest and oldest groups. 38% of online teens buy products online, as do 56% of Internet users ages 64-72 and 47% of Internet users age 73 and older. (pewinternet.org)

Email is the most popular online activity. Older Internet users prefer e-mail than any younger ones whose choice is me instant messaging.

Global Warming

Politically people have been noticing decline in Global Warming, but the evidence is there with the chart and also weather temperatures are really different to me. According to people-press.org, global warming makes people uneasy, but the truth is it's here and its up to use humans to handle it, and forget about how much money it will cost. Just do it like the Nike sign.

Political Online

People who post political stuff online are very likely to be active with their life.

• 32% of internet users who are involved in a political or community group have communicated with the group using the group’s website, and 10% have done so via instant messaging.
• 24% of online social network site users who are involved in a political or community group have communicated with the group using a social networking site.
• 17% of cell phone owners who are involved in a political or community group have communicated with the group via text messaging on a cell phone or PDA.