Play Investigator

Teenreads.com (which I highly recommend, by the way, as a great source for young adult novels) released the results of a survey of nearly 2900 of their readers ages 11 to 18. By their own admission, the respondents are teens who are already hooked on reading, so it doesn’t provide info about how to draw kids to reading. Still, some interesting stuff and definitely worth a read. Here’s some highlights:

Social Networking

71% use facebook (26% more than once a day, 14% daily)

42% use MySpace (8% more than once a day, 7% once a day)

25.7% have a twitter account (6% use it more than once a day, 2.8% once a day)

Television Use

25% use a DVR regularly, 15% sometimes, 59% never (could this be a sign of the book-loving respondents’ bias?)

25% watch 4-5 hours a week, 22% 6-8 hours, 27% 8+ hours, 22% 3 hours or less

Games

77% play games online