Poll: 'IM-ing' divides teens, adults
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Teenager Michelle Rome can't imagine life without instant messaging. Baby boomer Steve Wilson doesn't care that it even exists. They're part of an "instant messaging gap" between teens and adults. And the division is wide, says an AP-AOL survey on how Americans use or snub those Internet bursts of gossip, happy date-making and teen tragedies that young people exchange by the hour while supposedly doing homework.
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No doubt, parenting has changed in the Internet Age, and a new study tries to reveal how mom and dad are dealing with it.
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com. Among 18-54 years olds, 45.6 percent chose the Internet as their preferred media according to a new study released by the Online Publishers Association (OPA) comparing consumer attitudes toward different media.
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The transition from teen to young adult can be difficult enough on its own, but imagine making that change in front of a fickle public.
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Dear Amy: I am the father of a 13-year-old girl who is seeing - on a limited basis - a 16-year-old boy.  They attend the same junior/senior high school and met over the Internet when my daughter was "instant messaging" with the 16-year- old boy's younger brother.
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MySpace.com is planning new restrictions on how adults may contact its younger users in response to growing concerns about the safety of teenagers who frequent the popular online social networking site.
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The digital generation gap shows up in the attempt for schools to ban cell phones outright.  Teens and parents are pushing back against the attempts to take away the phones they have come to depend on so much.
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Nearly one in three teens who use the Internet have experienced some type of cyberbullying, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
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By VANESSA PERSICO &quot;I have a proposition for you,&quot; I wrote. lly apathetic 18-year-old friend a little over a week ago. &quot;You can vote.
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Although it grew up on desktop PCÂs, instant-messaging software has gone mobile Â and it looks more and more as if it has outgrown its roots in teenage chatter.
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Instant messaging has become a key way in which Americans communicate. And Detroit-area residents are right up there with IMers anywhere, with 58 percent of all Internet users in southeastern Michigan using IM regularly.
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IM DNWFM, WFU? If you're an avid instant messenger, you probably know what I mean: "Instant messaging doesn't work for me, does it work for you?" Yet I appear to be on the way to becoming a minority, a fuddy-dud resisting the text-chat party. Instant messaging, or IM, is catching on with...
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Youngsters are capable of expressing their angst in a 160-character SMS message.
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They love using their iPods, laptops and cell phones for political information, yet many young adults say they aren't quite sure how to get a ballot in the first place.
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Young people are more likely to vote when they receive a text-message reminder, according to new research.
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NEW YORK, June 6 (Reuters Life!) - The majority of young U.S. drivers admit they chat on their cell phones and text message while driving -- and almost a half of them see no reason to stop.
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Parents and child safety experts concerned about the online activities of teenagers have been nervous about a website called Stickam, which lets its 600,000 registered users, aged 14 and older, participate in live video chats using their Web cameras.