Tecnologia

Facts:
Teenagers and technology: 'I'd rather give up my kidney than my phone'
"I'd rather," deadpans Philippe Grogan, 16, "give up, like, a kidney than my phone. How did you manage before? Carrierpigeons? Letters? Going round each others' houses on BIKES?"
14 year old, Cameron Kirk, reckons he spends "three hours, three hours-and-a-half on school days" hanging out with his 850-odd Facebookfriends.
Madison also has 639 Facebook friends, and claims to know "the vast majority" (though some, she admits, are "quite far down the food chain"). "I don't want to be big-headed or anything, but Iam quite popular," she says.

Statistics: 75% of all teenagers (and 58% of 12-year-olds) now have a mobile phone. Almost 90% of phone-owning teens send and receive texts, most of them daily. Halfsend 50 or more texts a day; one in three send 100. In fact, in barely four years, texting has established itself as comfortably "the preferred channel of basic communication between teens and theirfriends".
But phones do more than simply text, of course. More than 80% of phone-owning teens also use them to take pictures (and 64% to share those pictures with others). Sixty per cent listen tomusic on them, 46% play games, 32% swap videos and 23% access social networking sites. The mobile phone, in short, is now "the favoured communication hub for the majority of teens".
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• 93% of teenagers 12-17 are online—the largest percentage of any age group.


• Only 8% of families with teens have no computer, and only 4% of homes with computers don’t haveaccess to Internet.


• 80% of teens 12-17 own a game console.


• 75% of all teens have a cell phone.


• A typical teen sends about 50 texts per day.


• Most teen cell phone users make 1-5calls per day.


• 31% of teens who take their phones to school send text messages every day during class time.


• 73% of teens are on social Internet sites (like Facebook).


• Only 8% of...