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Youth today are influenced by various digital media. Especially, internet environment provides new method of communication unlike the traditional way. At this point, we try to investigate two different aspects: one is experience what youngsters get within the digital environment, and the other is behavior what they influenced by basic characteristic of digital and its usage. Digital has various characteristics, such as open transcendence, easy of operation, virtuality, and etc, and they are well implemented within the internet environment. The objectivity of this research is to analyze how youngsters use internet and adopt them to new digital media, and what they are influenced by it. The results are as follows. For the purpose of internet usage when checking SNS, 30.2% respond that they use it very often and 20.3% also show regular use. The result shows that more than half(50.2%) of respondents use SNS through internet. Besides, our society appear to be insufficient to establish rules for internet use of youngsters and provide proper education on this issue to them. That is why it is need to prepare the policy how to educate adolescents on the issues of effective digital media usage and risk of addiction, and its prevention. For the follow-up study, gathering accurate data and implementing field research is required to suggest specific research model for analyzing digital usage of young people.