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Hi, I'm Sophie and I'm from Northern Ireland.
Hi, I'm Olivia and I'm from Belfast.
I like going on Facebook and seeing my friends and I also like looking up videos on YouTube.
I like Facebook and YouTube and MSN also to like talk to my friends when we're not in
school.
My name's Cameron and I surf the net for online shopping.
My name's Scott and I'm a Facebook addict.
My name's Jack and I go online to buy things and to browse my friends.
Hi, I'm Alexandra from Edinburgh and I guess my favourite sites are Facebook and shopping
online like TopShop, and yeah, all those shopping sites.
Hi, I'm Ellie and I'm from London. Um, my favourite sites are probably going to be Facebook
and Wikipedia for catching up with friends and helping me out with my homework.
Well, on normal basis, I would use the computer, but sometimes - I've recently got a new
BlackBerry - so I use the internet on that. But my brother would use the internet a lot
with interactive gaming through the X-box and, yeah, he has an iPhone as well so he
uses that so I think our family uses the internet a lot.
Erm, yeah, I would use my laptop and then in school I would use my phone. Erm, but my
sister has an iPodTouch and she uses that, and she has a BlackBerry as well and she uses
that as well so.
Do you use your phone in school because you can get on all the sites that are filtered?
Erm, it's, there are hotspots in this school so we've got to be careful like erm, yeah,
but our, our school network doesn't let Facebook through or anything so you can just upload
your status on your phone.
I mostly go on the internet on my phone and if not then on the computer
I'm mostly on my phone and on my laptop as well.
Well, for me it's my phone and my laptop because they're most easily accessible when
I'm at school.
I mostly go on my phone and on my computer, or on the school network.
I spend about two to three hours a day on the internet.
I spend probably about four or five hours a day on ... on the internet, probably Facebook,
web-browsing, doing homework and stuff like that.
I go online a lot. I think, well today the first thing I did was went on Facebook to
see what my friends were doing before school, because obviously I'm not in school, and
then normally it's the last thing I check at night just to see if any of my friends
have updated and I think that's kind of depressing.
Erm, I just turn my computer on after school and leave Facebook on, which is kind of bad
because you see people trying to message me and I'm not on, so I think definitely not
good on the environmental side, but I would leave it on maybe for four or five hours,
but not use it for all that time.
Well, on an average day, I don't tend to check it before morning break because we have
lessons and things, and then I think probably the first time I check my Facebook would be
about lunchtime for about 10 minutes just to see what's happening and to see if anyone
else is on break and just catch up quickly. And then in the evenings when I get back from
school, I spend about an hour and a half together and then when everything's finished and I'm
sort of ready for bed, I have my laptop with me and I spend a long time on Facebook chat
chatting to everyone I know I will see the next day but you just have to talk to them
because they're right there.
OK, I guess I probably spend too much time on Facebook, especially like at night, but
I don't think, I'm not addicted I would say, but yeah I do check it quite a lot.
Er, I think that the biggest issue is addiction because I know from personal experience that
I am always going online to Facebook, and I know my friends find that as well. And I
think it's a major issue for teenagers our age and above who feel that they have to go
online to see what people are saying.
Em, I think that privacy settings on photographs and things like that which show other people,
you know, who you are and what you look like and people who are strangers being able to
see them, I think that's a bit weird.
My biggest concern is virus download because I spend my ... I spend a lot of time downloading
music and music videos online so I'm afraid my computer is going to get really bad viruses.
Er, I'm afraid that I spend too much time on there. It's all I do and I can't really
talk to people.
I think the biggest issue is privacy when you're on ... on shopping and being careful
with the details.
Well, probably one of the biggest concerns is the privacy on the internet.
Yeah, like you don't really know who can see your photos and stuff. It's kind of scary,
I guess.
Sometimes you don't know who's looking at your profile and you don't know who you've
added and you don't know who could be talking to you.
We haven't really been given any advice in school. We've sort of been left to figure
it out ourselves on like how to keep things private and look after ourselves.
But we've certainly been made aware of the consequences of say cyber-bullying but we
haven't been told how to keep ourselves safe, which I think we need to address more.
So we had like a talk at school and it was really interesting because they showed us
like how our profile looks to everyone else and so then that kind of like showed us that
we should probably actually monitor what we're putting online. That any teachers can see
what's [there] so went and changed our privacy settings I guess.
Yeah and one of the really useful things they told us was never ever post anything online
that you wouldn't be happy for a teacher to see because there's quite a large chance
that one of your teachers might actually be looking at it.
And employers, yeah.
Which is quite worrying, so be careful what you say! What I'd like from the internet
in the future would everything to be 3D and then holograms, just something really really
cool, you can just touch everything. That'd be so cool!
I imagine the internet in the future to be altered and virtual reality like as seen in
Star Trek and Iron Man 2.
I think in the future that the internet's going to be all around us so whenever you're
just walking down the street you'll be able to get on the internet as soon as possible,
so wifi everywhere.
Fantastic!
I think the internet will become a big part of everyone's lives and you'll do everything
on the internet.
Um, in 10 years time I think that our computers will have 3D images and they'll think for
themselves, you know, you can like connect them up to you and, you know, you don't really
have to do that much thinking.
Yeah, I think there'll probably be a lot more movement to get things working, instead
of double-clicking, you actually click it. I think that would be quite cool.