Parents Think Teens Are on Their Phones Too Much. Teens Agree.
Just because young people are frequently online doesn’t mean they’re enjoying it.
Phones have saturated teenage life: Ninety-five percent of Americans ages 13 to 17 have a smartphone or access to one, and nearly half report using the internet “almost constantly.”
But as recent and have suggested, many teens find much of that time to be unsatisfyingly spent. Constant usage shouldn’t be mistaken for constant enjoyment, as any citizen of the internet can attest.A new nationally representative survey about “screen time and device
