Health, Safety & Well-Being of Young Adults Symposium National Academies May 7, 2013 Amanda Lenhart, Senior Researcher, Director of Teens & Technology Pew Research Center Young Adults, Mobile Phones and Social Media: Technology and the Transition to adulthood

About Pew Internet / Pew Research Part of the Pew Research Center, a non-partisan “fact tank” in Washington, DC Studies how people use digital technologies Does not promote specific technologies or make policy recommendations Data for this talk is from nationally representative telephone surveys of U.S. adults and teens (on landlines and cell phones) 12-minute presentation version: We’re the public opinion, “just the facts”, non-advocacy, non-policy part of the Pew universe

Moved from a stationary slow connectivity marked by one way information flows to mobile, social just-in-time access to people and places Mobile connectivity changes access (and expectations of access) to people and information Social media is the seamless addition to young adults’ social lives Mobile and Social = Geo-location More opportunities to have voice be heard, but also public visibility and persistence of missteps Technology inflects multiple aspects of late adolescence

46% of US adults used the internet 5% had home broadband connections 53% owned a cell phone 0% connected to internet wirelessly 0% used social network sites _________________________ Information flowed mainly one way Information consumption was a stationary activity Internet Use in the U.S. in 2000 Slow, stationary connections built around a desktop computer

82% of US adults use the internet 2/3 have broadband at home 88% have a cell phone; 46% are smartphone users 19% have a tablet computer 19% have an e-reader 2/3 are wireless internet users 65% of online adults use SNS The Internet in 2012 Mobile devices have fundamentally changed the relationship between information, time and space

Moved from a stationary slow connectivity marked by one way information flows to mobile, social just-in-time access to people and places Mobile connectivity changes access (and expectations of access) to people and information Social media is the seamless addition to young adults’ social lives Mobile + Social + Geo-location = More opportunities to have voice be heard, but also public visibility and persistence of missteps Technology inflects multiple aspects of late adolescence

Managing & recording life on the go 94% of cell owners take photos with their phones 68% of record videos with their phones 65% of do on their phones 45% do banking on their mobile phones Much more likely to engage in “just-in-time” information seeking activities on phone than older adults Substantially more likely to do all these (and more) on mobiles than older adults

Moved from a stationary slow connectivity marked by one way information flows to mobile, social just-in-time access to people and places Mobile connectivity changes access (and expectations of access) to people and information Social media is the seamless addition to young adults’ social lives Mobile + Social + Geo-location = More opportunities to have voice be heard, but also public visibility and persistence of missteps Technology inflects multiple aspects of late adolescence

Moved from a stationary slow connectivity marked by one way information flows to mobile, social just-in-time access to people and places Mobile connectivity changes access (and expectations of access) to people and information Social media is the seamless addition to young adults’ social lives Mobile + Social + Geo-location = More opportunities to have voice be heard, but also public visibility and persistence of missteps Technology inflects multiple aspects of late adolescence

11/21/ Foursquare – 2009 Today, 5% of cell owners “check-in” with their location

Moved from a stationary slow connectivity marked by one way information flows to mobile, social just-in-time access to people and places Mobile connectivity changes access (and expectations of access) to people and information Social media is the seamless addition to young adults’ social lives Mobile + Social + Geo-location = More opportunities to have voice be heard, but also public visibility and persistence of missteps Technology inflects multiple aspects of late adolescence

11/21/ Snapchat

Moved from a stationary slow connectivity marked by one way information flows to mobile, social just-in-time access to people and places Mobile connectivity changes access (and expectations of access) to people and information Social media is the seamless addition to young adults’ social lives Mobile + Social + Geo-location = More opportunities to have voice be heard, but also public visibility and persistence of missteps Health Technology inflects multiple aspects of late adolescence

Amanda Lenhart Senior Researcher, Director of Teens & Technology Pew Research Center’s @pewresearch