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More Youth Use Smartphones as Route to Web

by KREX News Room
by Jacklyn Thrapp

Story Created: Mar 13, 2013 at 2:57 AM MDT

Story Updated: Mar 13, 2013 at 7:07 AM MDT

CHICAGO (AP) - A new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that 78 percent of young people, ages 12 to 17, have cellphones. Nearly half of those are smartphones, a share that's increasing steadily.

That's having a big effect on how, and where, many young people are accessing the Web.

The survey, released Wednesday, finds that one in four young people say they are ``cell-mostly'' Internet users, a percentage that increases to about half when the phone is a smartphone.

In comparison, just 15 percent of adults said they access the Internet mostly by cellphone.

Text experts say these young ``mobile surfers'' will continue influence the way corporations do business and marketers advertise will only continue to evolve, as will the way mobile devices are monitored.

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