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Most teens use social networking sites
1/7/2007 | 
Coverage
Aline van Duyn , Financial Times, Companies
'"Many parents of teenagers are used to berating their children for spending too much time on the internet, and for revealing too much about themselves on publicly available social networking sites such as MySpace.com.
Now, in a study released today, it is clear just how commonplace using social networking sites has become among teenagers, especially those over 14.
More than half (55 per cent) of American children aged between 12 and 17 use online social networking sites such as MySpace, research by the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found. MySpace and Facebook and numerous smaller alternatives allow people to create web pages and fill them with text, pictures and video and also exchange messages with others in the network.
Among 12- and 13-year olds, 37 per cent say they have created online profiles, with 63 per cent of the 14- to 17-year olds having done that, the Pew study shows. Older girls are the biggest users of the sites, with 70 per cent of 15- to 17-year-old girls having created profiles.
“Girls tend to be more fervent users,” said Amanda Lenhart, senior research specialist at Pew, which interviewed 935 people for the study."
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