There’s a new study out on teens. I’m as shocked as you are to find out that teens socialize outside the Internet (bold mine).
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.
Damn you, teens! Why must your behavior puzzle us so? One minute, you’re all online hooking up and smoking marijuana cigarettes with pedophiles. The next minute, you’re all hanging out like you’re Ralph Malph and Potsie from Happy Days. Give us grownups a break, already! The next study on teens better exhibit more stereotypical behavior, or else!