Originally published August 6 2005
Survey shows U.S. teens are all on the internet
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
A new survey has revealed that some 90 percent of U.S. teens regularly use the Internet; a sign of how deeply the web has been integrated into society just 10 years after it went mainstream.
The survey, carried out in the States, suggests that the 87 per cent of teenagers (those between 12 and 17) use the Internet, which is up by a quarter since a similar survey four years ago.
And of those online, 51 per cent enjoy a broadband connection.
A digital divide is highlighted by Pew, which states that those teens who remain offline - about three million people - are clearly defined by lower levels of income and limited access to technology.
They are also, according to the report, disproportionately likely to be African-American.
This contrasts with the findings that nearly all teens in households earning more than $75,000 per year are online, mostly with high-speed connections.
For those who are online, Pew reports a large increase in online gaming and shopping.
ADVERTISEMENT - indicating that the texting phenomenum has yet to take off in the US - but many own several devices that can connect to the Internet.
'Increasing numbers of teenagers live in a world of nearly ubiquitous computing and communication technologies that they can access at will,' said the co-author of the report and Pew's Senior Research Specialist, Amanda Lenhart.
They take ever-greater advantage of this new technology ecology by mastering features like instant messaging and phone-text messaging on their tethered and mobile computing devices.'
But despite their familiarity with Internet technologies, an interesting finding is that email is losing its favour among the means by which the youth communicate with each other.
It has been supplanted by texting and instant messaging (IM), according to Pew.
In focus groups, teens declared that email was increasingly seen as a tool for communicating with adults, such as teachers, while IM is the preferred mode for everyday conversations with friends.
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