 TekTek is the story of Mark (Josh Grossberg), a 13 year-old boy addicted to the Internet, and especially text-based on-line "chatting." Taking the on-line nickname of TekTek, he s up half the night - or longer - chatting with his many on-line friends. In the morning, his mother finds him asleep at the computer. He doesn t have any friends in the  real  world - they re all on-line. His mother s efforts to encourage him to make  real  friends meets with hostility: to him, she just doesn t understand. He considers his on-line friends every bit as real and important as the in-person variety. His obsession grows as he develops an intense relationship with an on-line girlfriend. TekTek, though, is in for a shocking dose of reality as he discovers that his chat friends - including his on-line girlfriend - aren t who they say they are.