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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."

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  1. averaging.... by martas · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "The average teen (even including teens without cell phones)..." is that really what they should be measuring? i'd think stats regarding the average teen with a cellphone would mean a lot more...

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  2. averaging... by martas · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "The average teen (even including teens without cell phones)..." is that really what they should be measuring? i'd think statistics about the average teen with a cell phone would mean a lot more.

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    weinersmith
  3. Surprise Surprise! by Kilrah_il · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And this is a surprise because...? Even without taking into account the fact that many children embrace technology much more than many adults, we can find many reasons for the "findings" of the study:
    1) Children have more spare time.
    2) Children spend much of their time communicating with their friends, and texting is an effective way to accomplish that.
    3) Texting is probably the only safe way to communicate during classes, apart for the old time method of passing a note.
    Probably many more reasons, but I'm too tired to think about them.

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  4. The Original by cappp · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The data is taken from a Pew study, the original of which can be found here. There's some decent info in there, more than enough to support a really interesting chat if anyone cares to dig in. Oh, and 24% of teens text under 10 times a day, girls more than boys, older more than younger, and generally the same across racial and economic groups.

  5. Report by cappp · · Score: 0, Redundant
    The data is taken from a Pew study, the original of which can be found here.

    There's some decent info in there, more than enough to support a really interesting chat if anyone cares to dig in. Oh, and 24% of teens text under 10 times a day, girls more than boys, older more than younger, and generally the same across racial and economic groups. And the relevent part of the report that the summary seems to have missed

    Since 2006, text messaging has increased significantly from 51% of teens who were text users. More markedly, the frequency of teenagers’ texting has also increased rapidly over the year and half leading up to this study. Between February 2008 and September 2009, daily use of text messaging by teens shot up from 38% in 2008 to 54% of all teens saying they text every day in 2009.

  6. Original Report by cappp · · Score: 0, Redundant
    The data is taken from a Pew study, the original of which can be found here.

    There's some decent info in there, more than enough to support a really interesting chat if anyone cares to dig in. Oh, and 24% of teens text under 10 times a day, girls more than boys, older more than younger, and generally the same across racial and economic groups. And the relevent part of the report that the summary seems to have missed

    Since 2006, text messaging has increased significantly from 51% of teens who were text users. More markedly, the frequency of teenagers’ texting has also increased rapidly over the year and half leading up to this study. Between February 2008 and September 2009, daily use of text messaging by teens shot up from 38% in 2008 to 54% of all teens saying they text every day in 2009.

  7. Original by cappp · · Score: 0, Redundant
    The data is taken from a Pew study, the original of which can be found here.

    There's some decent info in there, more than enough to support a really interesting chat if anyone cares to dig in. Oh, and 24% of teens text under 10 times a day, girls more than boys, older more than younger, and generally the same across racial and economic groups. And the relevent part of the report that the summary seems to have missed

    Since 2006, text messaging has increased significantly from 51% of teens who were text users. More markedly, the frequency of teenagers’ texting has also increased rapidly over the year and half leading up to this study. Between February 2008 and September 2009, daily use of text messaging by teens shot up from 38% in 2008 to 54% of all teens saying they text every day in 2009.

  8. Pew data by cappp · · Score: 0, Redundant
    The data is taken from a Pew study, the original of which can be found here.

    There's some decent info in there, more than enough to support a really interesting chat if anyone cares to dig in. Oh, and 24% of teens text under 10 times a day, girls more than boys, older more than younger, and generally the same across racial and economic groups. And the relevent part of the report that the summary seems to have missed

    Since 2006, text messaging has increased significantly from 51% of teens who were text users. More markedly, the frequency of teenagers’ texting has also increased rapidly over the year and half leading up to this study. Between February 2008 and September 2009, daily use of text messaging by teens shot up from 38% in 2008 to 54% of all teens saying they text every day in 2009.