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Sex Drugs and Texting
statesman writes "The Associated Press reports that teens who text frequently are three and a half times more likely to have sex. A survey of 4,200 public high school students in the Cleveland area found that one in five students sent more than 120 text messages a day or spent more than 3 hours a day on Facebook. Students in this group were much more likely to have sex. Alcohol and drug use also correlate with frequent texting and heavy Facebook use."
You gotta contact your dealer/homeless guy buying your beer/friends parent somehow, right?
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Popular people with more friends, who go to parties involving alcohol and drugs are more likely to have sex?
Who knew?
Cell phones and social networks are gateway drugs!
Kids who have a social life are more likely to do social activities than their non-social peers?
Shocking!
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I have got to learn how to text.
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Actually, I think sex, alchohol, and narcotics are the gateway drugs to texting.
...is like surveying how many people in prison have had gay sex.
Also, correlation != causation.
Well when you consider most facebook lovers are women and most over texter's are women, it would make sense that women just want sex!
Teens who have a lot of friends to text with also have a lot of friends to party with.
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Don't let your kids near cell phones or social networks! They're gateway drugs!
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Really? Who thought that people with nothing to do would turn to sex and drugs. Go figure.
If I want to get laid, my chances are better if I surf facebook while texting.
If I would have known this 30 years ago when I was in high school, I would have been unstoppable...oh wait.
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Hmmm, which mobile provider has sponsored this study? :)
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so people who interact with people a lot tend to interact with people.... a lot
How can this possibly be news? People who talk to other people more also have sex more.
Just because they correlate doesn't mean that texting causes teens to have more sex and consume alcohol and drugs. Perhaps the ones in the social scene just text more.
So socializing leads to sex -- who knew?
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So basically teens who are more socially engaged are more likely to perform acts that require a second person? Shocking. Really shocking.
So basically, -1 troll/offtopic is really slashdots way of saying "I hate that you thought of something before me."
When ever I text of use facebook I just want to have sex. (Of course not really)
People who are more socially active(by modern norms) are more likely to engage in social activities. More at 11.
Does it really surprise anyone that you can link sociability to promiscuity? Especially in teenagers? Pretty much the only difference between this and the circumstances that were true when I went through high school is the tech angle. Which will, of course, result in much hand-wringing among Luddites.
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social kids are more like to conduct social activities. I'm shocked I say, simply shocked.
Of course the real point of the article is that kids without supervision take risky behaviors.
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Kids with friends party and have sex!
If I want to get laid, I should spend hours on facebook while texting...
If I knew this 30 years ago while I was in high school, I would have been unstoppable...Oh wait.
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People who are social might be having more sex! Movie at 11!
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Now some guy is going to ban their kids from texting and internet because god forbid it might cause them to have sex. Correlation and causation are the same thing right? Hint: No. People who send 100 text messages a day are just hyper social. No wonder they end up socializing in someone else's bed a bit sooner than kids that don't feel the need to tell others what they feel, think or do 100 times a day.
You mean the popular kids who talk to the most people have more sex than antisocial loners? Wow. Money well spent on research.
This sentence no verb.
Facebook is a gateway drug.
This post was made in complete sincere seriousity; as such any attempts to derive humour are doomed to instant failure.
It's a hydroponic's gateway drug.
Popular teens more likely to get laid, take drugs. More at eleven.
teens who socialize more, have more friends!!!
yeah :) first post. I'm 3x more likely to have sex than you guys. Nah. I send 360 messages a day ;)
So in other words texting inclination correlates with higher chance of reproducing. Sounds like they found the missing link.
If this can be generalized to adults, then I am going to break a world texting record!
I'd imagine that both hyper-texting and sex would correlate strongly with type-A personalities. And anyone texting that often is likely to be very extroverted. I'd also bet that the drug use in this group is as much about fitting in with a group of peers as it is about any pre-disposition towards substance use. Plus, it's Cleveland, so what else is there to do when you're hanging out with friends?
Cell phones will cause the downfall of society.
Kids that have friends party and have sex!
Married men who spend 3 hours or more on Facebook don't get any sex.
I wonder which mobile provider sponsored this study. :)
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I mean wow. Kids who are more social are more likely to interact with other kids, by doing things like drink, drugs, sex, and rock and roll....
We were all warned a long time ago that MS products sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook not so good"
Teens that are more social are more likely to be engaged in social activities!
At least now video games can take a break from being the whipping boy.
"It's neither possible nor interesting to do anything else when completely wasted. And whose leg is that anyway".
side note: increasing irritation with the dichotomy between alcohol and (other) drugs.
"Kill 'em all and let Root sort 'em out"
Yet another study that means nothing. The obvious answer is that the more social people are more likely to have sex/smoke/drink, and also happen to be more likely to text and use Facebook.
Will it work for me?
*starts texting everyone he knows*
Now how about a study that shows people who are too busy to txt are alone, doing whatever the opposite of sex is?
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BRB, updating FB status to single.
The kids who don't socialize obviously aren't making leaps and bounds in the sex department.
Popular people (e.g. those with lots of friends to talk to via text messaging) have more sex? I never could have guessed.
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Correlating what we've always known - popular kids go to more parties and have more sex. Nice to see some research backing up that piece of common knowledge.
I am switching from /. to texting, now.
teens who socialize the most, have more friends!!!
Everybody, stop the presses! The more social kids are getting laid!
Next up for California to ban, texting for anyone below 18. I can't wait to see the supreme court case.
Breaking news! Trendy social teenagers more likely to engage in sexual intercourse with peers! Film at 11.
Ah, to be young again ... and have a cell phone with a text plan ... sure, I'd still strike out but people who see me texting would think I was 3.5 times more likely to be getting some.
...an article that acknowledges that causation != correlation? This is a first.
News at 11. Humans are social animals. Playing the social game is the best way to get laid. Shocking I tell ya!
Life is not for the lazy.
Popular students go to more parties, where they can booze, blaze, and bang? Groundbreaking. Even more astounding
On the bright side, the survey found that almost a quarter of students engaged in zero texting (22.5 percent) or social networking (22.2 percent), and that they likewise had better health.
Unpopular kids don't get the chance to play with the cool kids.
I live in constant fear of the Coming of the Red Spiders.
I would had spend more time on facebook to get laid.
Wait, are they suggesting that more social teens are more likely to participate in social and peer-pressured activities?
Say it ain't So!
What next?
A study that shows that cars with an engine are more likely to be involved in collisions than those with nothing but weeds growing under the hood?
Is it really news that popular kids are more likely to have sex and be involved in drugs and alcohol? Don't we all remember this from high school?
I guess the reverse is true, too, given the number of slashdotters who make it clear that they never use Facebook.
More popular people (e.g. those that have a bunch of friends to send text messages to) have more sex? I never could have guessed.
Also having a boyfriend or girlfriend is normally a sure sign you'll be sending a lot of texts to that person.
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Who knew getting laid would take nothing more than a little texting? I wonder if it has to be to anybody in particular...
So the kids that are social and interacting with friends on a constant basis are more sexually active than the antisocial trolls who spurn human contact? I find this finding shocking and counter intuitive. Or, wait, what's the opposite of that? Oh yes, obvious.
I hate to beat on a dead horse here, but the media that picked up on this story has apparently forgotten that correlation and causation are in fact not the same thing, yet again.
I read the internet for the articles.
That's like saying that people who have a social life, have higher chances to have sex..
i thought all the kids were texting themselves and not teens of the opposite sex. or at most they were discussing books
Breaking news! Trendy social teenagers more likely to engage in sexual intercourse! Film at 11.
Kids who text all the time and live (sort of) on Facebook or Bebo may well be kids who already have problems. This study is a survey of schoolkids at point in time, and does not provide any data on whether early sex and drugs cause Facebook, Facebook causes early sex and drugs, or, most likely, both reflect existing issues facing the kids. Indeed texting and Facebook are likely better coping strategies than sex and drugs, though perhpas les immediately enjoyable.
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The popular kids get more action... Wow. I'm glad they did this study.
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Extroverts do more stuff than introverts...AND GET LAID!
Alcohol and drug use also correlate with frequent texting and heavy Facebook use.
Isn't it really people who text and use Facebook for long periods of time need to drink and use drugs?
...is that the popular kids who have someone to txt with are more likely to have sex? Shocker.
I bet in the 90's kids who used the phone more often were more likely to copulate as well.
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(posted again because it seems the first time didn't work.) I guess the reverse is true too given the number of slashdotters who claim no Facebook use.
...lemme get this straight - the kids who are more social, or to use another term: outgoing, are more likely to try to be more mature? SHOCK HORROR!
QUICK, WRAP EVERY KID IN COTTON-WOOL NOW!
Basically, the more social a teen is the more likely it is that they're going to date and have sex. Also, the more social your teen is, the more likely it is that they are going to go to parties with alcohol and drugs.
What's new here? Stop giving parents new "warning signs" to start worrying and freaking out about. I would be happy that my kid is social, unless it's out of hand, because it generally means they're more well adjusted.
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From TFA:
The study concludes that a significant number of teens are very susceptible to peer pressure and also have permissive or absent parents, said Dr. Scott Frank, the study's lead author.
Duh?
No yesterday, no tomorrow, and no today.
Big surprise.
Probably because the folks that spend a bunch of time texting and on Facebook do so because they have many friends to communicate with. It is obvious to me that having many friends and being popular can create the opportunity to have more sex and engage and drug and alcohol use.
Sex, drugs, alcohol, texting, and social networking are all -social- activities (for most teens). It makes sense that the most social amongst teens would be the ones to engage in social activities.
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Damn, where was that cellphone when I was young
In other words, social misfit wallflowers don't get laid...? It goes with out saying the most outwordly social people end up partaking in despicable human acts such as sex....
They'll be saying that heavy Slashdot use has the opposite effect.
The Associated Press reports that teens who talk frequently are three and a half times more likely to have sex. A survey of 4,200 public high school students in the Cleveland area found that one in five students uttered more than 120 sentences a day. Students in this group were much more likely to have sex. Alcohol and drug use also correlate with frequent talking and heavy use of neck movements.
I wish i had known that when i was young.... Would have invented the mobile phone (to do texting) and facebook (to use it) in order to get more sex.
This one chick I dated always communicated via text, and she was a beast in the sack, This other chick always actually made voice calls and she was a prude.
Frequent texting and Facebooking are pleasures of their own for many; likely some future study will prove, instead of speculate, that they are addictive as well. Just like sex, drugs and alcohol.
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Participation in one social activity corresponds with participation in another social activity! This is amazing!
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
The more effort you put into your social life, the more you will have sex. I really can't be bothered with being sociable right now. Wouldn't object to the sex, but what can you do (legally)?
which is totally what she said
because the slashdotters seeing this story immediately grabbed their phones to start texting as frequently as possible, in the hope that the correlation stems from causation...
You mean that popular students with active social lives have more sex and drink/smoke more? Who knew?
Man, things really have changed a lot in the past 20 years. Back then the #1 way to get chicks was to be a total recluse and shun all contact.
Maybe... Or maybe it's just because they are the social chatterbox type. And that type is the personality who always has to be in relationships. Bookworms & nerds just don't tend to become textaholics because they don't care as much about having their ear to the grapevine with all 500 of their closest friends.
To say correlation does not equate causation?
Could it possibly be that students who use drugs and have sex are more inclined to use Facebook/Texting and not the other way around? I mean how else do they contact their drug distributors and pimps?
Sexual activeness correlates with texting and "drug and alchohol" use. And the one they decide to say is more likely to cause it is the texting?
If it rhymes it must be true.
Social people have more sex, do more drugs, and drink more booze...
I'll be the first to say it: Correlation does not imply causation.
It should not be surprising that heavy facebook use and texting indicates a more active social life. Teenagers with a more active social life are more likely to be in social situations that could lead to risky social behaviours.
In all likelyhood both are being caused by having an active social life.
Duh. How about those who are more social are more apt to be drinking and having sex. Facebook and texting aren't causing them to have more sex. Those who like to drink and have sex are just those who actually know how to talk to each other. Geez.
To paraphrase. This is a bullshit study.
Wait, What? You could come up with any number of conclusions from that data.
Honestly, I interpret it as: overly social teens are more likely to have sex.
This is sensationalist reporting at it's finest. Totally bullshit.
The magic of sociology research: telling us that teens who socialize frequently are more likely to have sex and go to parties.
If only slashdotters had known that growing up. :(
In other news, people who engage in certain social behaviours are more likely to engage in other social behaviours.
So the results of this study is that kids who are social and use social tools are more likely to party and have sex? Of course this is opposed to the nonsocial kids that are much less likely to do so. I think someone needs to remind the reporters that latched on to this study that correlation and causation are not the same thing. In fact I'm pretty sure this dynamic has existed for a lot longer than Facebook. It could have just as easily been titled:
Popular kids more likely to have sex, party.
I read the internet for the articles.
Kids with a social life are more likely to have sex, than ones without friends. I want a grant for a bloody obvious survey.
So... in other words, teens who have a social life are more likely to have sex and do drugs. Is this really news?
So your telling me Kids that are more popular and have more friends are more likely to use drugs and have sex. Wow I'm so suprised. Who would have thought that kids that have more social interaction are more likely to have sex and use drugs? What a stupid study.
Guys, this is great news. Let's all start texting each other and then we'll be three times more likely to get lucky! I love statistics!
If I mod you up, it doesn't necessarily mean I agree with what you've said, sorry.
People who interact socially get laid more.
Hopefully I can save someone a bit of trouble:
Yes, we all know that correlation isn't causation. The authors of the study didn't imply any such thing, and their tentative conclusions run along the lines that a common cause (parenting) could influence both texting and risky behaviors in a parallel manner.
Not surprising that the anti social can't get some
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... the mighty facebook experiences the /. effect? Im heading over there now and make it my homepage while i still can!
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Being popular leads to social interactions and pressure from peers.........
It's not because of the frequently-texting, or because of the facebook-use. It's what's popular and social. Just so happens, sex, drugs, and attention-whoring are what the cool kids are doing, so of course you'll find one with the other. Trying to correlate those things together in some sort of causal way is an easy (shameless) way to grab parents' attention, but is entirely missing the point.
It's always confirmation bias!
Alcohol and drug use also correlate with frequent texting and heavy Facebook use
I knew no one in their right mind would use facebook.
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$Thrend_media_action_newstuff will cause YOUR kid to be delinquent..... And you never did the same thing at your age... EVER These "studies" are getting annoying.
Basically, the more social the teen is the more likely they are to date and have sex. Also, the more social the teen is the more likely they are going to go to parties that have alcohol and drugs.
We need to stop giving parents new "warning signs" to worry about. Unless their texting is way out of hand, there is nothing to worry about. In fact, the more social our children are, the more likely that they're well adjusted and, in reality, I'd rather have a well adjusted child that has sex (providing that it's safe sex) and/or experimented by drinking a couple beers at a party rather than have a child who is unhappy and/or not well-adjusted.
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So kids who are more social tend to have more social experiences and be exposed to more influences? Wow!
Sex, intoxication, texting, and social networking are all -social- activities for students. So it makes sense that a social student would engage in social activities, does it not?
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The story says Hyper-Texting, yet the title is Texting. I'm confused..
Or is it... "teens who are more likely to have sex are three and a half times more likely to text frequently"? I hate these bullshit studies.
Looks like a case of fake causality there... more social kids are more likely to text a lot. more social kids are more likely to get it on a lot.
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This just in. Kids with a social life have more sex. Film at 11.
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You mean that socially adept, popular kids have more sex and drink/smoke more? Who knew?
Man, it's not like it used to be. See, back 20 years ago, the way to get the chicks was to shun all contact and be completely awkward at all times.
Humans that interact more have more sex. Since sex is interaction and relies on successful social queues that can only be learned through interaction, I'm not sure I'm all that impressed by the findings.
Likewise, if you wanted to cut your kid off from sex, alienating them from their culture would likely do it. Why do you think they invented Dungeons and Dragons??
Why are you posting articles about how good other people have it when you know that we on /. will never live to experience these oh so common past times amongst the normal parts of the human population?
Cue a surge of Facebook traffic in 3.. 2..
This was a cross-sectional survey of schoolchildren. It tells you nothing about the direction of causation. Maybe using Facebook and texting a lot does indeed cause early sex, drug use and drinking. Maybe kids who use drugs, drink and have sex, use Facebook more to tell others about it,and text a lot to arrange their busy social lives. Most likely, kids who have sex, drink and drugs, have significant major issues in their lives already, and may be using texting and Facebook as alternative (or additional) coping strategies.
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So... kids who are heavily social may be more likely to preform a particular social behaviour than kids who are not as social.
Is this at all surprising? Anyone?
I would expect that the more popular you and the more friends you have, the more time you'll spend on Facebook and/or texting. Likewise, the larger your social group, the more likely you are to have sex and go to parties with drugs/alcohol.
I'm sure, though, that this will prompt a huge backlash trying to protect our children from the corrupting evils of technology.
Shocking! Social people engage in social activities more often! News at 11.
Amish people more likely to be virgins.
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Teens who spend 3 hours plus on Facebook a day and send 120 plus texts a day have more sex than those who don't? You're kidding?
Who would have ever thought that teens who spend more time maintaining their social relationships than their peers ended up having sex more often than those who didn't?
Next you'll be shocking us with the revelation that frequent texting is inversely correlated with library card use and Quiz Bowl participation.
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people who have a large social circle are more likely to partake in social activities like drinking or sex....
i wonder if there are any parents out there that will interpret this to mean banning texting will lower sex and drug use.
FTA: "The study concludes that a significant number of teens are very susceptible to peer pressure and also have permissive or absent parents, said Dr. Scott Frank, the study's lead author."
That's the key there. The same kids who are allowed to text that much and spend that much time on Facebook (3 hours a day? seriously?) probably aren't getting a whole lot of direction from their parents in any other aspect of their lives either. I'm guessing you could correlate high school dropout rates, teen pregnancies, and basically every other negative statistic involving teenagers with this same behavior. The unifying factor in all of it is permissive or absent parents. It seems that once their kids hit puberty, a lot of parents just sort of figure the kids have got their shit together and it's time to move from parent mode to friend mode. Yes, as kids age they need to be let off the leash a little more to live their own lives, but a lot of parents take that way too far and just sort of release the kids into the wild and let them sink or swim entirely on their own once they hit high school (or even middle school!). The result is the kids get the guidance they're missing from their parents from their friends instead, and that's never a good thing.
Can I have some sex drugs? Sounds like Soma or Viagra.
In other news, Slashdot doesn't use commas in their titles.
Sex and Drugs and Texting ... wasn't that a Zappa song?
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An equally bad title would be, kids having sex are more likely to text frequently.
But then how would we be sure it wasn't reporting done by the Onion?
Well if they're doing lots of texting, or spending lots of time of facebook, they are probably more popular... ie the more popular ones are the ones that are more likely to have sex/drugs/alcohol. Not really sure what the study shows other than that.
Is it any surprise that facebook addicts and serial SMS abusers are more likely to have sex? That's what socializing is about, really.
(S)ex, (T)exting & (D)rugs = STDs... Go figure?
Teen 1: So, you're tellin me that if I start texting a lot I'll get to have more sex?
Teen 2: Yep, that's what the article says.
Teen 1: AWESOME! *begins texting furiously*
Teen 2: Who are you texting??
Teen 1: Well, you, of course?
Teen 2: I'm flattered. Maybe you ought to go text yourself.
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
If I don't want my kids to be losers, I need to get them cell phones with unlimited texting plans ASAP?
...if she texts, she sexts.
please note, the link to increase was the social networking site facebook. i wonder if the link also applies to adult friend finder. i would suggest not.
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Let me guess... it correlates with listening to Lady Gaga instead of Iron Maiden or ACDC.
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Teenagers who have a social life that is driven by peer validation, rather than, say, quality of social interaction or deep interest in a certain activity, are more likely to have sex and/or engage in risk taking behaviors in an attempt to impress those peers. I remember when I was growing up, parents were being warned about teenagers spending more than an hour a night on the phone being the cause of all types of 'naughty' 'nefarious' activity. In previous decades it was probably the kids who went to outdoor concerts, or the kids always heading up to a lovers lane or old quarry to drink. In the Victorian era these people were called dandies. The technology is essentially irrelevant, so long as that segment of the population exists, they'll do whatever is 'in thing.'
A 'social life' is not a one size fits all label. There are very, very few non-social people in the world, which is the main reason solitary confinement drives people nuts--it's that the value each person places on different types of social interaction varies enormously.
Correlation does not imply causation.
Funny - for once something like this actually tells the statistical truth.
With a small research grant I could do an experiment where I install a GSM modem on my home server, write and install a random text messaging daemon on the server and on my phone, and see if it improves my chances of copulating with a female. If the result is positive, I would then work towards determining the exact causality by repeating the experiment with a 2.4Ghz jammer to simulate the electromagnetic emissions from a highly active cellular connection. Throughout these experiments my current copulation rate with an idle cell phone would act as the control data.
If my hypotheses are correct this could lead to the development of a "sex beacon" which I would patent but not license out - therefore the only legal way to own one would be to build one yourself (I'll also need some donations to cover the legal defense of this patent). This should work out nicely for all geeks ;)
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I consider text messages a ridiculous, overpriced scam of the phone companies and have sent about five of them throughout my entire life. No wonder I'm single.
Build an SMS-to-Slashdot gateway daemon, problem solved...
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increasing irritation with the dichotomy between alcohol and (other) drugs.
Then vote to have the law changed. If marijuana were sold like lettuce there would be no dichotomy.
The problem of illegal drugs is no only the harm done to the user, the problem is that buying them finances crime. You have never seen a brewer gunning down people at the Al-Anon, have you?
If they are texting so much how do they find time for sex?
... this explains everything!
how is this news? teenagers are into sex and drugs....and the sky is blue, grass is green and I have better things to do with my life than care about the normal behavior of today's youth.
How about a comma in there, bro?
If you are texting all day long, you're aching for attention. That doesn't mean you are popular. Probably the opposite is true, at least in your own mind. You're begging for attention, for confirmation that others give a damn about you.
I facebook to forget my miseries
are texting like crazy and their thumbs are getting red and bleeding in the vain attempt to have 3x more chance to have sex. They all forget that 3 * 0 = 0.
Am I the only one that read this and didn't go, "duh, popular and social kids get laid", but rather, "addicts of one are addicts of another"? I don't think being more social has anything to do with "over" texting, or drinking, or sex, or 3 hours a day on facebook. Rather, it seems more like attention-seeking teens - get it.
This article should have been titled: NEWS FLASH - BORED TEENS ENGAGE IN MORE SEX, TEXTING, DRUGS, VIOLENCE, and ALCOHOL.
Says the same thing, but in a more accurate manner. After all the study did not determine the correlation of these activities was a result of texting, merely that texting was one of the results in common.
I'm guessing you don't text very much.
Seriously, sometimes people communicate because they are social. Aching and begging imply that the person is trying to coerce other people to communicate with them, which I don't think is a particularly reasonable assumption to make. If someone has a large circle of friends and that person keeps in contact with all those friends, and if they use texting as a primary communication tool (it is very convenient, especially in class...) then yes, 120+ text messages a day is pretty damn reasonable.
Hell, for me a pretty typical text message exchange is 4 or 5 messages. Wouldn't take a lot of that to rack up big numbers.
The other possibility is that teenagers have sex, drink, and use drugs because they enjoy those activities, just the same way that adults do. Yes, there are risks involved, and yes those activities are dangerous when pursued irresponsibly. That doesn't always mean that they are giving in to peer pressure.
Teens who chose not to have sex are typically making that choice because of the huge pressure society puts on them. Waiting until you are 18 to have sex is *not* biologically natural.
Enough said. I wonder what the correlation between sex and Crocs would be?
With 120 text messages and 3 hours of Facebook a day, where do they find the time to have sex?
Engaging in social activities found more likely by those who engage in social activities. Full story at 11.
So this study determined that people who are prone to addictive behaviour - yes, 120+ texts per day would count - are prone to addictive behaviour. That’s some good science, right there.
In a series of related studies, it was found that teens who send less than 25 txt messages a day have a one in five chance of an internet porn addiction and that senders of less than 5 txt messages a day have a 300% chance of suffering a severe injury from chronic masturbation in their lifetime.
... but I think I really need to text and facebook more.
I'm on facebook all day (tabbed browsing ftw) bring on the sex.
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