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More than half (55 percent) of all American teens between the ages of 12 and 17 use online social networking sites, according to a new national survey of teen-agers conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which conducted phone interviews with 935 teens.The study claims girls use social networking sites like MySpace to reaffirm existing friendships, while boys are more often there to flirt.The research suggests that these sites were most popular with girls aged 15-17 as 70% of those questioned said they had an account at one or more of the social networking sites. By contrast only 54% of boys aged 15-17 were such keen users. Some teenagers are avid users of the sites and 48% of those interviewed said they visited the sites on a daily basis, while 22% said they looked at the sites several times a day.