Canadian Teens use Email and Instant Messaging Most

In a recent Ipsos-Reid survey of 1,226 online teenagers between 12 and 17 in Canada, researchers found that socialising supersedes all other online activities by a wide margin.

Ipsos-Reid’s Canadian Inter@ctive Reid Report took a detailed look at the online activities of teens 12-17 years of age and examined how they were using the Internet for things such as downloading music, education, shopping, playing games, and to get in touch with others. Based on a list of 18 online activities asked, sending and receiving email (73% do so at least a few times per week) and using instant messaging (70%) far exceed the list of other non-social online activities that they participate.

Furthermore, there are a host of other social activities such as playing online games against friends (28%) or strangers (23%), posting to online forums (11%) or visiting web logs or blogs (10%), that a small, but dedicated group of online teens regularly participates in.

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