8feature wingspan • october 21, 2011

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facebook•87percentofstudentsatWesthaveaFacebookpage•86percentoffemaleshaveaFacebookpage•89percentofmaleshaveaFacebookpage•42percentofstudentschecktheirFacebookdaily•30percentofstudentschecktheirFacebookpages multiple times per day

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Joy Johnston

“I like real books better than e-books because you don’t have to go on the Inter-net 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 be-come too technologically dependent. Real books are so much better be-cause 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.”

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West Henderson

•19percentofstudentsatWesthaveaTwitter account•78percentfollowcelebritiesonTwitter•39percentfollow20peopleorless•46percentofmalesfollow20peopleorless•33percentoffemalesfollow20peopleorless

•35percentofWeststudentsareongoogle+

favorite apps

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(based on a survey of 220 students)

Google+isanewtypeofsocialnetworkthatisopentoeveryone18yearsorolder.Togetagoogle+ac-count,gototheGooglewebsiteandclicktheYou+inthe top left hand corner of the page and get started!

(based on a survey of 457 students)

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Brayden Dickerson

“I like e-books

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.”

(based on a survey of 457 students)

• Social networks account for 22.5 percent of the time Americans spend online.

• Americans spend 53.5 billion minutes on Facebook from com-puters at home and work(up6percentfrom50.6billionmin-utes 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.

• 94 percent of students at West use forms of social media besides text messages and email

• 52 percent access the Internet by computer, 20 percent by smart-phone and 20 percent on their iPod or iPad

Thomas Birkhead and Jordan Kitchen Samantha Holmes, Maggie Kingand Sarah Littauer

Amy Castellucci