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美国大多数孩子对手机迷恋

If it seems like every teenager you see has a smartphone in their hands, it's not your imagination. Fully 73% of American teens have access to one, a study finds. Add in the 15% of teens who have a basic cellphone. Only 12% of the teens said they didn't have a cellphone of any type.

A survey of more than 1,000 teens found that 92% of teens go online daily and 24% say they are online "almost constantly." "It's very easy to feel as though you are nearly often online when you have a ringing, music-playing device in your pocket 15 or more hours a day," Lenhart said. Just 12% of teens said they went online only once a day and a 6% said they went online weekly.

Amy Treadwell lives in Novato, Calif., and sees the pattern with her daughter's friends. "I'll have three girls in the back seat of my car and they've all got phones. They're interacting, but not interacting," she said.

While the Internet pulls teens from family life, in some ways it also allows parents to connect with their children, said Nancy Costello. Her daughter got a smartphone when she turned 13. One upside has been the glimpse she gets into her daughter's daily life. "I can find her feeling by what she posts or what she tweets," said Costello, who made it a rule that she gets to follow her daughter on social media. "I'm guessing that I probably know more about my kid as a 14-year-old than my mother knew about me when I was that age." Costello also uses her daughter and her friends as a way to understand what's hot in social media. "Facebook is where Baby Boomers are going, but for people below 20, it's not about Facebook, it's others —Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat," she said.