Teen-Agers on Jobs: No Social Networks, No Thanks

In today’s economy, most people are in no position to turn down a job offer over trivial issues, but teen-agers apparently don’t consider access to social-networking sites to be a trivial issue.

According to the results of the seventh annual Junior Achievement/Deloitte Teen Ethics Survey, 88% of the 1,000 U.S. teens aged 12-17 who were surveyed by telephone use social networks daily, 70% said they spend at least one hour on social-networking sites daily and 58% said access to social networks would be a factor when considering job offers.

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