Computer use has become a major after-school activity among Taiwanese teenagers, with as many as 75 percent of students using the Internet as a way to relieve stress, according to the results of a survey released on Tuesday by the King Car Education Foundation.
The foundation urged parents to pay more attention to leisure activities their children engage in during the upcoming summer vacation and make sure their children do not spend too much time online.
Of the 2,606 students from 18 elementary, junior high and senior high schools who took part in the survey, 20.6 percent of them spend more than four hours per day on the computer on weekdays, with the percentage rising to 47.24 percent on weekends.
On average, the time spent online by respondents was 2.54 hours on weekdays and 4.6 hours on weekends.
The survey found that 67 percent of respondents felt bad or uneasy if their Internet connection was interrupted, 47.8 percent always stayed online longer than expected, 29.6 percent would try to calm their emotions by going online, and 24.7 percent used the Internet whenever they had problems.
The most common reasons mentioned by respondents for Internet use are playing cyber games, chatting with friends, downloading video or audio, doing data searches and visiting blogs.
The survey results indicated there are four unhealthy phenomenons related to Internet use among Taiwanese youths: not sleeping at night, not going out during holidays, feeling unhappy without the Internet and having inadequate knowledge about cyber safety and legal issues regarding Internet use.
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