Extension of the Hand: Children’s and Teenagers’ Relationship With the Mobile Phone in Finland

Young people in Finland have been particularly quick to adopt the mobile phone into their lives: 77 percent of Finns aged 15-19 have the use of a mobile phone (Nurmela, Heinonen, Ollila, & Virtanen, 2000). The phenomenon is by no means exclusively urban: Regional differences in the distribution of mobile phones are relatively small.