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Texting On the Rise In the US

Posted by timothy on from the only-a-decade-behind dept.

frontwave links to this stat-laden overview of trends in text-messaging among Americans, citing a few of its findings: "The average teen (even including teens without cell phones) sends and receives five times more text messages a day than a typical adult. A teen typically sends or receives 50 text messages a day, while the average adult sends or receives 10. Fully 31% of teens send more than 100 texts a day and 15% send more than 200 a day, while just 8% and 5% of adults send that many, respectively."

2 of 468 comments (clear)

  1. First text by somersault · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Seriously, no posts in the last 15 minutes on this topic? I'm doing first post out of sheer boredom here.

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    which is totally what she said
  2. Re:Wow an adult recieving an average 10 etxts a da by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I guess the iphone breaks them up and puts them together on each end to just keep it looking like one long message?

    You are correct. You'd know this if you weren't too busy driving the Porsche Cayenne Turbo that you don't actually have .

    Why did you get rid of your PREVIOUS PORSCHE? Don't tell me... KATRINA, RIGHT?