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HomeWord's Weekly Culture Brief for 1/29/10
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Top 10 Increasing Web Searches on Bing - 1/29/10
1. ipad
2. toyota recall january 2010
3. craigs list
4. australian open 2010
5. netbook
6. irs.gov
7. turbo tax free
8. turbotax 2010
9. kfor
10. peta
Source: Bing
Top 10 U.S. Websites - 1/29/10
1. Google
2. Facebook
3. Yahoo!
4. YouTube
5. MySpace
6. Wikipedia
7. Amazon.com
8. Blogger.com
9. eBay
10. Windows Live
Source: Alexa
iTunes Top 10 Downloaded Songs - 1/29/10
1. Tik Tok
- Ke$ha
2. Hallelujah (feat. Charlie Sexton)
- Justin Timberlake & Matt Morris
3. Imma Be
- Black Eyed Peas
4. Carry Out (feat. Justin Timberlake)
- Timbaland
5. Hey, Soul Sister
- Train
6. BedRock
- Young Money & Lloyd
7. Bad Romance
- Lady GaGa
8. In My Head
- Jason Derulo
9. How Low
- Ludacris
10. Today Was a Fairytale
- Taylor Swift
Source: Apple iTunes
Top 10 TV Shows in Prime Time - Week Ending 1/24/10
1. Fox NFC Championship
2. American Idol - Wed.
3. American Idol - Tues.
4. Fox NFC Champ. Postgame
5. Two And A Half Men
6. The Mentalist
7. NCIS
8. Criminal Minds
9. CSI
10. The Big Bang Theory
Source: Nielsen Co.
Top 5 Movies - Week Ending 1/21/10
1. Avatar
2. The Book of Eli
3. The Lovely Bones
4. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
5. Sherlock Holmes
Source: Box Office Mojo | 
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Teen Pregnancy, Abortion Rates Rise
The teen pregnancy rate in the USA rose 3% in 2006, the first increase in more than a decade. The data also show higher rates of births and abortions among girls 15-19. About 7% of teen girls got pregnant in 2006, a rate of 71.5 pregnancies per 1,000 teens. That's up slightly from 69.5 in 2005, according to the Guttmacher Institute. In 1990, when rates peaked, about 12% got pregnant. In 2006, two-thirds of all teen pregnancies were to ages 18-19. Source: USA Today
60% of Young Men, Teen Boys Lie About Sex
Seventeen magazine conducted an online survey of 1,200 guys, ages 15 to 22 and found that 60% said they had lied about something related to sex; 30% lied about how far they have gone; 24% lied about their number of sexual partners; and 23% claimed not to be a virgin when they were. 45% of the respondents said that they are virgins and 75% said that there was "way too much pressure" from society to have sex. Source: USA Today
Too Familiar: Another Teen Taunted by Cyberbullies Commits Suicide
Even in death, Phoebe Prince was bullied. On a memorial page dedicated to the Massachusetts teen who had recently committed suicide, Facebook members left taunting comments that had to be removed. The 15-year-old committed suicide in her home on January 14, according to police. Afterward, her fellow students came forward to tell school officials that Prince had been teased incessantly, taunted by text messages and harassed on social networking sites like Facebook. The National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center estimated that nearly 30 percent of American youth are either a bully or a target of bullying. Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine, in a new review of studies from 13 countries, found signs of an apparent connection between bullying, being bullied and suicide. Source: ABC News
Youths' Use of Social Networking Reflect Their Face-to Face Interactions
New research from the University of Virginia suggests that socially well-adapted young people with positive relationships are more likely to use social networking websites (like Facebook) to further enhance the relationships they already have. On the flip side, young people with behavioral problems and difficulty making friends are more likely to use social networking in a negative or aggressive way, or steer clear of social networking altogether. Source: Science Daily
Items for this culture brief are compiled from Jim Liebelt's Youth Culture Watch blog.
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