Teen Girls Use Instant Messaging More than Boys
‘Older teen girls use instant messaging more than boys their age or younger teens do, shop online more, gather information about health, religion, entertainment and colleges more.
Jim Lynch, information technology director at Eagan High School, sees it firsthand every school day. “The guys are out there gaming, but the one thing the girls are out there doing is communicating,” he said.
The vast majority of U.S. teens between ages 12-17 — 87 percent — use the Internet, up from 73 percent in 2000, the survey said. That’s 21 million American adolescents, up from 17 million at the height of the dot-com boom five years ago. In 2004, 51 percent told the Pew researchers that they go online daily, up from 42 percent four years earlier.
The only area where boys dominate is in playing online games. But even there, older girls are closing the gap.
More than two-thirds of older teen girls, 69 percent, played online games, up from 46 percent five years ago. That’s a 50 percent increase in four years, significantly larger than any other group studied — older boys, younger boys or younger girls, said Pew researcher Mary Manning.’
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