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Does your teen live on the Internet?
10/10/2005 | 
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Bill Decker , The Lafayette Daily Advertiser, Local News
'"A survey released recently by the Pew Internet & American Life Project will sound familiar to any teenager’s parent:
Although other surveys say only about 66 percent of adults go online, 87 percent of teens said in the Pew study that they have Internet access. (The Pew study was based on random phone calls to 1,100 people late in 2004.)
42 percent of online teens said they use instant messaging, an Internet function that, like chat rooms, allows people to exchange written communication in real time. Half of teens prefer IM over the telephone for keeping in touch with friends.
Girls ages 15 to 17 are among the most frequent users of IM as well as cell phones.
Is all this Internet a good thing for teens? Donna Aucoin thinks it is, on balance. Aucoin is a Lafayette counselor whose clients include adolescents.
“It’s helpful in many respects,” Aucoin said. “It can be quite helpful for academic progress and to keep in touch with friends who have moved away. I think the positive aspects outweigh the negative ones.”
On the other hand, “there seems to be so much of the correspondence … and less socialization off the computer,”Aucoin said.
Aucoin hesitates to offer tips or rules for parents, preferring to call them suggestions:
Keep your teen’s computer in the living room or other area where people will be around, not in the teen’s room.
Limit online time, cutting off the computer at a set time each night.
Be alert for occasions when your teen changes the screen quickly as you approach the computer, a sure sign there was something the teen didn’t want you to see."
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