Poll: Teens use IMs to avoid embarrassment - CNN.com

Poll: Teens use IMs to avoid embarrassment - CNN.com: "More than four in 10 teens, or 43 percent, who instant message use it for things they wouldn't say in person, according to an Associated Press-AOL poll released Thursday. Twenty-two percent use IMs to ask people out on dates or accept them, and 13 percent use them to break up."