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

The

chart

provides details about the average amount

time

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British teens spend chatting and playing

games

on a workday. A close look at the

chart

reveals that

boys

spend slightly less

time

chatting on the internet with about only 30 per cent of them spending more than an hour daily chatting and an

overall

of about 55 per cent of them chatting on a daily basis.

Girls

,

on the other hand

, enjoy chatting daily more with about 40 of them out of a 100 that spend more than an hour chatting. When it comes to playing console

games

, the

chart

illustrates a great gap between

boys

and

girls

with

boys

having the lead. Close to 9 out

10

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,

boys

play video

games

on school days, a number which differs greatly

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that of the

girls

with only bearly more

then

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half of them playing. The distinction does not end there for the

chart

shows, on average, not only more

boys

spend

time

playing, but they spend more

time

doing so.

Games

take up more than an hour in more than two-thirds of

boys

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lives.

Girls

,

however

, spend much less

time

playing. In general, about 70 per cent of UK teens play

games

on school days.