Zach's Blog

Zach is famous! You need a fan club, big time to turn up in support. If I make a few international calls, I might be able to arrange that for you, should you like of course.

Knock 'em dead Zach and show that Ben C. is not the only UHSer that is worthy to speak on a panel (that said, Ben C. is definitely worthy and I'd go see him speak on a panel...maybe not pay to see him, though)

Favorite site: Wikipedia, because you can make a fairly instant difference in something quite useful. I'm probably not the typical teen Internet user, but many of the (more typical) teenagers I know are into things like Wikipedia too. They’re just a little shy to admit it when everyone else is talking about MySpace or facebook.

I'm 16. I guess that I'm a teen then :>.

And yes, I'm not a typical teen Internet user either.

I don't use cell phones very often, they just seem so limited to me. The situation would be different if colour-screened qwerty-phones were cheaper :/.

My favourite site... well. There isn't a specific favourite site to me, because I use net to mainly ircing. Let's say Wikipedia too. But I surely know what is favourite site of most teenagers in Finland. It's http://irc-galleria.net/. (In enlish, IRC-gallery) The site originally started as a place for IRC users, where they could send their pictures, but nowadays 90% of it's users don't use IRC. It's fashionable to have one's picture there, and many real ircers are really irritated about that. It's so popular that 31.7% of Finland's teens (13-19-year-olds) use it.

If I could change something about computers, I'd change the unvalid, messy-coded web sites. And raise the user ratio of Firefox :).

Zach, it seems to be a great idea. Hope, you'll pick up and post some of them.
Anyway, if FF is to be used by masses, it's UI and features should also consider habits and ideas of the elders. For instance, here in Europe, those users will predominate in near future.

I am 17, and most of the people, including myself, use the internet for Instant Messaging a lot. I also use the internet for things like researching things for school and also for finding just about anything using a search engine. Also e-mail is a very big thing, used more then the IM sometimes.

If 19 in 2 and a half weeks still counts as 'teen', my favourite site is anything wiki based, simply because it makes me feel I can contribute to the community - like I do, indeed, have a purpose in being there, and like I can add to the sum of knowledge and ideas.

i am 13, so just barely a 'teen', and i have serious doubts about my normality (actually, i pride myself on being a nerd). though i would hazard to guess you are not really looking for average teen internet usage.

1) you can't really expect 'average' 'teens' to be reading this or responding;

2) i think you would be dissappointed with what you would find in average teens. most are "internet is blue e" and—don't laugh, i've actually heard this from some one intelligent; one of my friends told me it--"bill gates _invented_ the internet!"
then again, he's capitalist chinese, so...

well. i use internet for irc, a tiny bit im, surfing, liferea, and (lengthily) posting on places like this through obsure links from a feed in liferea ;) oh, and some email

for favorite site i would have to say...umm...hmm...
maybe gnome.org, mozilla.org, w3.org, and random nerd's blogs

Scott Tankard/auk (irc mozilla, freenode, gimpnet)
[sptankard_at_gmail_dot_com]

I'll have to add wikipedia to that list now. :-)

Im 13, the above poster's friend. I agree that most people are computer-illeterate fools that have no idea what the internet's real capabilities are. I have lost many a pro-apple argue to a clueless person that retaliates to every point with either "What the hell is a mac?" or "if apple was better then why does microsoft sell more?"
My father is a programmer that i am very glad has purchased 7 macs for our house; iMac for me, ibook for my brother, mac mini for my mother, a newer Power Mac Quad and and older Power Mac G4, and two laptops of which i am not sure the type.

My favorite website is probably wikipedia.org; my dad recently got adminstrator privelages to it.

A new gadget that I would make isa cell phone with iTunes (I thought of that far before it actually came out >.<)

If i could change computers, I would grind every windows machine on the planet into super-fine dust, melt it, pour it down a storm drain, blow up the sewers then nuke the surround 5 miles, and replace all the computers with macs.

Call my a crazy mac-zealot. I probably am. But hey in 10 years there will be no microsoft so... doesn't reall matter.

The average teen computer user isn't going to be on mozillazine.org so this is pointless. If you want to know what the average teen is doing on the internet its simple. It all evolves around social activities on the internet. IM, MySpace, etc. If you can reinvent the wheel on how teens can commmunicate with eachother on the internet then theres your gold mine. As for the other question, what would the average teen want to see developed in terms of new software? A: The average teen doesn't care. So why would they have given that any thought?

You want to open up the gold mine for teenagers as the Mozilla Corporation, Google, etc. surely does. Your going to have to figure it out on your own damn time because the same thing that makes hollow headed teenagers so easy to market and sell to (as they were breed to be in this great Nation) voids all of your questions.