8 feature wingspan • october 21, 2011 facebook facebook • 87 percent of students at West have a Facebook page • 86 percent of females have a Facebook page • 89 percent of males have a Facebook page • 42 percent of students check their Facebook daily • 30 percent of students check their Facebook pages multiple times per day 10 minutes ago going social Share Home 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.” about 1 hour ago about 5 hours ago twitter google+ he said West Henderson •19 percent of students at West have a Twitter account • 78 percent follow celebrities on Twitter • 39 percent follow 20 people or less • 46 percent of males follow 20 people or less • 33 percent of females follow 20 people or less • 35 percent of West students are on google+ favorite apps nationwide statistics 69% 22% 9% she said (based on a survey of 220 students) Google+ is a new type of social network that is open to everyone 18 years or older. To get a google+ ac- count, go to the Google website and click the You+ in the top leſt hand corner of the page and get started! (based on a survey of 457 students) photo by Heidi Brickhouse west statistics photo by Kennedy Galloway (based on a survey from www.fastcompany.com) photo by Kennedy Galloway e-books real books vs. 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 (up 6 percent from 50.6 billion min- 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 King and Sarah Littauer Amy Castellucci