Until very recently, teenagers have been hooked on television. Parents worry that their children are becoming fat, lazy couch potatoes, and teenagers seem to have 1 watching TV to almost any other activity in the home except sleeping. But no more. Given the choice between TV and the Internet, it's clear what most teens prefer. The Internet 2 an interactive, social need that TV doesn't. Teenagers at a loose end in their bedrooms can hang out with their mates in cyberspace. As websites such as „My Space' have taken off, teenagers have been only too 3 to join in their millions and spend hours day and night 4. We're 5 the birth of the generation of the „keyboard potato', for want of a better expression.