Nearly 90% of Taiwanese teenagers use social network sites: survey
Almost 90 percent of teenagers aged 7-15 in Taiwan are members of social networks, with an average of three accounts per person, and on average utilization of two hours a day, according to a recently available survey. A sum of 87 percent of elementary and junior students have social networking accounts, according to a survey conducted by the Children Welfare League Basis (CWLF) from May 8-23, with 1,542 valid respondents. On Tuesday the CWLF announced the survey results at a press conference in Taipei, noting that each respondent comes with an average of 3.8 social media accounts and uses those accounts 16.7 hours weekly on average. The survey, with a confidence degree of 95 percent and a margin of error of plus or minus 2.49 percentage points, showed 9.4 percent of respondents utilized social networking sites a lot more than 40 hours weekly and 60.8 percent used gadgets until midnight. Nearly 63 percent of respondents considered it vital that you stay online, 39.9 perc...