The Buzz: Teens communicate online

(WPRI) A recent survey of American high school and college students revealed that few teens would revert to landlines, letters, or even talking, if social media went away. AWeber Email Marketing shows how high school and college students use technology throughout the day. 90% of teenagers are on Facebook, and 93 percent use mobile phones.

Students check their Gmail during class, unwind after school with YouTube, hop on Skype at night, and use their mobile phones throughout the day to message their friends. Lunchtime was the only time when 96 percent of teenagers just sat down and talked to each other face-to-face.

Online communication is an increasingly integral part of American life, the survey found. If their favorite network went away, 43 percent of teenagers said they would just wait for the next one to come out. Only 6 percent would resort to forms of communication like letters and landlines - far fewer than the 18 percent who said they would just stop communicating entirely.