OMG! Teens still talk with friends face to face

Phones and social-networking sites are also important, study finds
From: www.msnbc.msn.com
By Anick Jesdanun
updated 5:39 p.m. ET Dec. 19, 2007

NEW YORK - Teenagers still value phone calls and face-to-face meetings with friends even as they frequent online hangouts like Facebook and MySpace, a new study finds.

Nearly 40 percent of teens say they talk to friends on a traditional wired phone every day, and 35 percent say they do so on cell phones, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said Wednesday, analyzing its phone surveys from late 2006. Thirty-one percent of teens say they spend time in person with friends every day.

Fewer teens say they communicate daily using instant messaging, text messages or internal messaging systems at Facebook, MySpace or another social-networking site.

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