Link to April 2 USA Today article, "For teens, a friend online is usually a friend offline, too".Excerpt: New research about online and offline friends shows that most teens use the Internet to interact with people they already know rather than strangers who might turn out to be predators.
The 2008 study by University of California researchers asked 251 teens about their face-to-face friends and those they communicate with via social networking and instant messaging. The study will be presented at a meeting of the Society of Research in Child Development, which begins today in Denver. Results of a similar study of college students were published last year in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
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