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wingspan • october 21, 2011
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• 94 percent of students at West use forms of social media besides text messages and email
• Americans spend 53.5 billion minutes on Facebook from computers at home and work (up 6 percent from 50.6 billion minutes in May 2010). • Facebook reaches 70 percent of active Internet users and of the visitors 62 percent are females. • Nearly 40 percent of social media users access social media from their mobile phone. (based on a survey from www.fastcompany.com)
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• Social networks account for 22.5 percent of the time Americans spend online.
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• 52 percent access the Internet by computer, 20 percent by smartphone and 20 percent on their iPod or iPad Amy Castellucci
he said
Samantha Holmes, Maggie King and Sarah Littauer
• 87 percent of students at West have a Facebook page • 86 percent of females have a Facebook page • 89 percent of males have a Facebook page • 42 percent of students check their Facebook daily • 30 percent of students check their Facebook pages multiple times per day
10 minutes ago
•19 percent of students at West have a Twitter account • 78 percent follow celebrities on Twitter • 39 percent follow 20 people or less • 46 percent of males follow 20 people or less • 33 percent of females follow 20 people or less
about 1 hour ago
22%
google+ • 35 percent of West students are on google+
9%
Google+ is a new type of social network that is open to everyone 18 years or older. To get a google+ account, go to the Google website and click the You+ in the top left hand corner of the page and get started!
about 5 hours ago (based on a survey of 220 students)
she said
Brayden Dickerson
69%
(based on a survey of 457 students)
(based on a survey of 457 students)
“I like ebooks because you can have a lot of different books in one place. Plus you can switch them out and get different books and be reading them at the same time. It’s a lot more convenient. You don’t have to worry about your books getting damaged and it’s a lot cheaper once you have paid for the actual device.”
e-books vs. real books Joy Johnston “I like real books better than e-books because you don’t have to go on the Internet or use technology to read them. With normal books, you can actually see the worn pages, see how many people have read them. I think the world has become too technologically dependent. Real books are so much better because you actually get a real experience, and you don’t have to press a button to go to the next page. E-books just aren’t the same.”