Teens raised with technology are outfitting themselves with cellphones, pagers, laptops and hand-held computers, often persuadingparents to buy the gear for "safety reasons in an emergency."
One in five teens has a cell phone, one in four has a pager andmore than half have their own computers, according to TeenageResearch Unlimited's national survey of 2,019 teens last spring.
Beyond safety, teens use the gadgets to talk to their friends,write school papers and play computer games.
"It's definitely a status symbol to have a pager, and even more soto have a cell phone," said Sarah Griggs, 17, a senior at Lake ForestAcademy who has a cell phone and pages her …
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