Amanda Lenhart Quotes
What's going on with these technologies that are relatively complex is that teens have a bit more spare time than adults do, and they have more opportunities to play with technology. That's what they're doing: They're playing with it. It's a toy. When you play with something, you take it apart, you look inside it, you turn it around. ... I think adults are less likely to do that. They just want it to work. 
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In many countries, the cell phone is viewed as the most basic piece of technical equipment, kind of like the way Americans view the computer... Just as some of us have multiple computers, some people have more than one cell phone.
- Amanda Lenhart
Teens feel more comfortable online because it is not a physical world to them. While they may be exposed to advances or images they don't like, they don't feel that they will be physically harmed because they know how to block offensive users in chat and they believe it would be hard for predators to track them down.
- Amanda Lenhart