A study from the Pew Hispanic Center shows that young Latinos are using the Internet to talk with each other as much as other groups, but less likely to use mobile technologies.
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The study polled 2,012 people in August and September of 2009, with 1,240 of the respondents being between 16 and 25 years old. The study included both people born in the U.S. and those born elsewhere.
Mobile phones are used extensively among non-Latino and Latino youth, the study says, but notes that the latter group uses them slightly less. Of the Latinos aged 16-17, 49% of them texted daily, whereas among non-Latinos the number was 64%.
Use of the Internet, however, was not very different between the two groups. Eleven percent of 16-17 year olds generally used email to talk to friends, versus 9% of Latinos the same age.
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SOURCE: IB Times
Jesse Emspak
