"While working a part-time job at an engineering firm, Edgewater High School senior Michelle Tyrlik scrimped and saved for seven months so she could fulfill a longtime dream: to buy her own laptop.
"My parents didn't help me buy it, and it's the first thing I ever got completely by myself," said Michelle, 17, who spent $2,000 on a powerful laptop and can't live without her cell phone.
"I like connectivity and staying in touch with the world," she said. "It's the evolution of communication."
Michelle has a lot of company among American teens, and especially among girls ages 15 to 17, says a report released Wednesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, a Washington, D.C., research group.
Almost 90 percent of teens (defined as ages 12 to 17) are online via either computer or cell phone, a 24 percent jump from the Pew group's last survey of teens four years ago."
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