Comparison and contrast of the internet surfing between Thailand and the American teenagers

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The instant-message generation
Furthermore, close to 13 million teenagers’ use instant messaging and this techno-communication has a key place in many of their lives. Talking to buddies online has become the information-age way for teens to hang out and beat back boredom. 74% of online teens use instant messaging. In comparison, 69% of teen instant massagers use IM at least several times a week. 19% of online teens say they use IM most often to contact their friends when they are not with them; and 8% use email. 71% still use the phone most often. 37% have used IM to write something that they would not have said in person. 17% of instant massagers have used IMs to ask someone out; 13% have used instant messaging to break up with someone.57% have blocked messages from someone they did not want to hear from and 64% have refused to respond to instant messages from someone they were mad at.22% of online teens who use instant messaging and email have shared their password with a friend.
Activities on the Web
Finally, send or read email 92%, Surf the Web for fun 84%,Visit an entertainment site 83%, Send an instant message 74% ,Look for info on hobbies 69% ,Get news 68% ,Play or download a game 66% ,Research a product or service Before buying it 66% ,Listen to music online 59% ,Visit a chat room 55% ,Download music files 53% ,Check sports scores 47% ,Visit a site for a club or team that they are a member of 39% ,Go to a Web site where they can express opinions about something 38% ,Buy something online 31% ,Visit sites for trading or selling things 31% ,Look for health-related information 26% ,Create a Web page 24% and Look for info on a topic that is hard to talk about 18%.( Reports by Pew Internet & American Life Project)
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...ts in the United States and the American education has been found that Most of teenagers in Thailand use internet for learning 93%.Likewise,American teenagers use internet for learning 95%.Therefore the result this can explain that, the teenager of both country have interest about using internet for education considerably.
However, Teens today are living rich, active online lives that come with many benefits and some drawbacks, such as Cyber Bullying, Cybercrime, deception and other. We must be careful to find information and reliability of various information such as online News, online video and others, avoiding becomes a victim on the social network by Precaution a stranger and Illegal from Online media. We should use various learning resources on the internet for develop knowledge and potentiality oneself in creating new good things on online social networking.

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