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Survey shows habits of young social networkers
1/7/2007 | 
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Martha Irvine, Associated Press, Houston Chronicle, Technology
'"For 17-year-old Amanda Sanchez, social networking is an obsession, a distraction — and when she moved to a new town last summer, it was her lifeline.
"Over the summer, MySpace was my best friend," says the high school junior, who lives in San Dimas, Calif. "I didn't know anybody after I moved, so I was on there all the time."
She usually checks her page a couple times a day — and keeps in touch with old friends and those she's made at her new high school. So preferred is this form of communication among people her age that guys ask her for her MySpace address more often than her phone number.
It's pretty typical behavior, according to a new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The survey of 12- to 17-year-olds provides some of the first independent numbers on social networking for that age group — and found that older girls, in particular, are the most likely to have used social networking sites, such as MySpace or Facebook."
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