Browse the Internet, electronic games and exercise and spend some time in positions of social relations, which are important for the growth of the adolescent as an extensive study on the use of the Internet.

Perhaps this report contradicts the belief of a number of parents and teachers that such activities were a waste of time.

Said Dr. Mimi Ito, a report to the BBC: "They learn the technical skills necessary in today's world.

They learn how to communicate over the Internet, how to create social identity.

All these skills have been classified in the field of complex competencies Ten years ago, but now they see young people of the obvious. "

It also said that the study revealed that sites such as Facebook or Mai Bock Space replaced social spaces such as parks and shopping areas and streets, to build social relationships.

As the Internet has provided a number of individuals in the sample room "of openness and creativity."

Participated in this study, which lasted three years, 800 adolescents and their relatives.

They underwent observation for a total of 5 thousand hours.

The MacArthur Foundation funded this study within an integrated project on the learning and digital media, costing 50 million dollars.

The objective of the study - called the Digital Youth Project - is a "vision of the way in which ethnographic Inahjha children learning, leisure and social relationships."

 

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