The average UK teen checks social media eleven times a day, and a large proportion of them -- 58% -- said they would have trouble giving up social media for a month, according to Allen Carr Addiction Clinics, which conducted the survey of 1,000 British teens ages 12-18. Similarly, 66% of teens surveyed said they couldn't go without texting for a month; British teens send an average 17 text messages per day.