Advanced Technology

• 73% of teens report they have a desktop computer, 45% report they have a cell phone, 18% say they have a laptop computer, and 7% have a personal digital device such as a palm pilot.
  Pew Internet & American Life Project survey. USA Today. 24 August 2005.
• The portable porn market could grow to nearly $200 million a year here by 2009
  Mini-Porn Could be Mega-Business, Mike Musgrove, www.washingtonpost.com, 2005
• Sales of Apple’s iPod has soared over the past 3 years.  During the October-December quarter, 14 million iPods were sold in 2005, compared to 4.5 million sold in the 2004 quarter and 733,000 during the 2003 quarter.
  Apple Computer, USA Today, 11 January 2006.
• In a USA today poll, children ages 8 to 18 report what they are more likely to do at a home computer rather than at school: 35% say they would chat with someone they don’t know, 30% say they would download music without paying for it, 29% say they would go to websites they probably shouldn’t go to, 24% say they would give out their personal information online, and 22% say they would download software without paying for it.
  Youth Internet usage, Harris Interactive for Business Software Alliance, 2006
• Approximately 23% of children in nursery school, ages, 3, 4, or 5 have gone online according to the Education Department
  ABC, WEB, Now I know my Internet, Ben Feller. Cincinnati Enquirer. 5 June 2005.
• Sixteen percent of adults spend time visiting faith-oriented websites during the typical month. The Internet is the only mass medium among those tested whose audience share has grown during the past decade. The proportion of the population using the Internet for faith purposes has increased by two-thirds since 1998.
  More People Use Christian Media Than Attend Church.  The Barna Update, 14 March 2005.
• Thirty-five percent of adults read a Christian magazine during a typical month. One-third of all adults read a Christian book.
  More People Use Christian Media Than Attend Church.  The Barna Update, 14 March 2005.

Cell Phones

• The Yankee group predicts the mobile adult-content business to be worth $1 billion worldwide by 2008, while Juniper Research has it at $2.1 billion by 2009.
  Putting Flesh on Phones, Daniel Terdiman, www.wired.com, 2005
• Increasingly, cell phones are being used for more than just talking. Many cell phone companies are offering entertainment-oriented add-ons that allow people to watch TV, check their email, surf the Web and listen to music.
  Enter a whole new world through your phone, Jefferson Graham.  USA Today, 13 May 2005.
• 50 million subscribers sent 4.4 billion text messages in Cingular’s first 2005 quarter.
  Enter a whole new world through your phone, Jefferson Graham.   USA Today, 13 May 2005.
• Dwango Wireless will develop Playboy-themed games, images, video clips, voice clips and ring tones, and deliver that content to 170 million cell phone subscribers throughout North America through agreements with major wireless carriers such as Cingular, Nextel, T-Mobile and Verizon.
  Enter a whole new world through your phone, Jefferson Graham.   USA Today, 13 May 2005.
• An independent study by IDC revealed that 33.2% of cell phone users in America, more than 55 million, are between the ages of 5 and 19.
  Pornographers Set To Go After Children With Cell Phones.  OneMillionDads.com, 27 April 2005.

Video Games

• 92% of children between the ages of 2 and 17 are playing video games.
  Parents need our help, Rod Blagojevich, USA Today, 6 June 2005.
• U.S. children are exposed to 8 1/2 hours of TV, video games, computers and other media a day, often at once. As a result, kids’ expectations are to be constantly entertained and, if they are not entertained, they quickly lose interest.
  So much media, so little attention span, Marilyn Elias.  USA Today, 31 March 2005.