• Detroit News/ Cox Newspapers, Friday, September 19, 2008 10:45 AM

A new survey says that 97% of all teenagers 12 to 17 play video games of some sort, whether it's on a Sony PlayStation, Nintendo Wii or Apple iPhone, but more than three quarters of them say they play games with others at least some of the time.

And while first-person shooter games are certainly popular, the most played games involve less violent themes like Nascar racing, puzzles like Tetris or Bejeweled, or sports like football, soccer and skateboarding, according to the study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. It is based on a telephone survey of 1,102 teenagers 12 to 17 between Nov. 1, 2007, and Feb. 5, 2008.

"This report does a lot of myth-busting," says Amanda Lenhart, the Pew senior researcher who wrote the study. "It's not just about 14-year-old boys sitting alone in the basement blowing things up."

In my household, we're anxiously awaiting the survey that debunks the myth that teenage boys drive too fast.

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