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Reports: Teens Text-Happy

  • Reuters, Tuesday, April 20, 2010 2:26 PM
How many texts do you send a day? Compare that number to the 100 texts that a third of U.S. teens (with cell phones) now send every day. That number is from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which found that texting has risen dramatically since 2008, eclipsing cell phone calls, instant messaging, social networks, and, as Reuters notes, "talking face-to-face." "Texting is now the central hub of communication in the lives of teens today, and it has really skyrocketed in the last 18 months," Pew researcher Amanda Lenhart tells the news service.

Furthermore, Pew found that three-fourths of young people between the ages of 12 and 17 now own cell phones, and of those that do, girls typically send or receive 80 text messages per day and boys, 30 per day.

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