Behner said all eight teens were close friends who lived in the same neighborhood.
And two-thirds of social network-using teens send private messages to friends, down from 82% in November 2006.
Yet, somehow, even the most technologically inept people in our lives have heard it mentioned on morning talk shows, FM radio stations or from pre-teens anxious to impress their friends.
Behner said all eight of the teens in the vehicle were close friends who lived in the same neighborhood.
Rosen says he sometimes asks teens why they tend to text friends rather than using FaceTime, Skype or other video technologies that allow for facial recognition.
Osinski has videos of teens drowning that were recorded on their friends' phones.
The percentage of teens using email for daily communication with friends has been rather flat since Pew started recording it in 2006, when it was 14%.
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Friends and family members described the teens as good kids who weren't troublemakers.
Just under half (49%) of teens said that their favorite way to communicate with their friends is in person, followed by texting (33%) with social networking (7%) just slightly ahead of talking on the phone (4%).
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Posts which could identify the teens' age or location should only appear in searches by friends and "friends of friends" in the same age group.
Additionally, fewer teens are sending bulletins or group messages or sending private messages to friends from within social network sites.
Only 8% of teens felt able to talk to their parents, as opposed to their friends, about depression - even though a third of parents expressed concerns over teenage depression.
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This means both that counting only communications with friends drags down the figure, and that one should expect teens who have less official business to conduct to do less emailing than adults.
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Her upcoming book is titled From Facebook to Friends with Benefits: Dr. Ruth's Guide to Parenting Teens Today (Teachers College Press).
The teens she socialized with around the pool and tennis court were a different breed than her other friends.
Teens have remained steady or even shown a slight decline in their likelihood of using social network sites to connect with friends.
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