Ohio Teen Finds High Demand For Internet Advice

High school student Lesley Ann Jones, 18, may be the Dear Abby of the World Wide Web. Lesley launched her TeenSpeak site on the Internet Jan. 8, and the advice column for young computer browsers already has won national attention.

“The site got nearly 200,000 hits in January,” said Bill Griffin, who owns Coax-Net Internet Service in Vandalia. He helped Lesley develop her web pages and keeps a log of activity on each site.

That’s a lot of people who have contacted TeenSpeak since Yahoo listed it as a Site of the Week and Netscape put it in What’s New. “This is the most successful website we’ve hosted,” Griffin said.

Lesley is scheduled to go on national television to talk about TeenSpeak. She has been invited to fly to San Francisco on Feb. 26 to appear on The Web, a Sci-Fi Channel program about computers.

The site - you can find it at http:/ /www.teenspeak.com/ - has received more than 4,000 E-mails, including queries and comments from several foreign countries including Russia and Sweden.

“I’m so proud of her,” said her father, Ben Jones. “She has carved a little bit of history.”