The chart below shows the amount of time that 10 to 15-year-olds spend chatting on the Internet and playing on game consoles on an average school day in the UK

The bar chart compares the time spent by 10 to 15-year-olds in the UK on two activities, namely chatting online and playing computer

games

.

Overall

, we can see that playing computer

games

is marginally more popular than chatting on the Internet.

However

, a completely different trend can be seen if we look at the specific figures for

boys

and

girls

.

Boys

aged between 10 and 15 clearly favour playing on game consoles over chatting online.

According to

the chart,

while

85% of

boys

play

games

every day, only 55% chat online daily.

Furthermore

, the majority of

boys

play on their consoles about 55% for more than one hour each day, and 10% do

this

activity for four hours or more.

By contrast

,

girls

prefer chatting online, which illustrates close to 70% of 10 to 15-year-old

girls

engaging in online conversation each day, compared to about 50% of

this

cohort who play computer

games

. Of the

girls

who do play on consoles, most of them play for less than an hour,

whereas

most

girls

who chat online do so for more than an hour, and nearly 10% chat for four hours and more.