---
title: "Teenage Life Online: The Rise of the Networked Generation"
description: "This presentation covered our basic findings about how American teenagers use the Internet."
date: "2003-08-14"
authors:
  - name: "Lee Rainie"
    job_title: "Former Director, Internet and Technology Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/lee-rainie/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2003/08/14/teenage-life-online-the-rise-of-the-networked-generation/"
tags:
  - "Families"
  - "Generations"
  - "Music"
  - "Social Networking"
  - "Technology User Types"
  - "Teens"
---

# Teenage Life Online: The Rise of the Networked Generation

This is a speech Lee gave in Singapore to an audience of government officials, academics and industry executives. This presentation covered our basic findings about how American teenagers use the Internet and the implications of that Internet use on their social worlds and the world they would create in the future.