Is there any time left for traditional human interaction in a world where chatting, instant messaging, emoticons, social networking, cell phones and VoIP calls are teenagers’ vocabulary’s main words? According to a new study conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, it appears that traditional human interaction was left behind by the new communication tools, which seem to have charmed most of our children.

So, according to this recent study’s findings, it seems that among teenagers with access to multiple forms of communication, only 35 percent listed face-to-face human interaction as an everyday means of communication. However, the study revealed that traditional personal human interaction is in fact the second least popular way of communication among teenagers, as only 22 percent of teenagers sent an email daily.

Pew Internet’s study further revealed that the most used method of communication is the mobile phone, with 70 percent of the teenage respondents listing it as being their primary means of communicating with their friends. The second most used communication means was SMS text messaging, with no less than 60 percent of teenagers using it.

On the next positions of this top came the Internet and its software tools of communication: 54 percent of Pew’s survey’s respondents said that they send at least one instant message a day, while 47 percent listed social networking web sites as their favourite daily communication means. Surprisingly or not, on the fifth position one could find the landline phone, which seems to be still alive and kicking with 46 percent of teens using it at least once a day. So, even the old landline phone is more popular than shaking your friends’ hands and talking to them while looking into their eyes!

The Pew Internet and American Life Project’s study was titled Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online and it was based on a survey conducted between October and November 2006 by the Princeton Survey Research Associates International.