US kids go text crazy - average 3,339 texts a month
By DPA, IANSFriday, October 15, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO - It’s official: American teenagers are text-crazy.
A study released Friday by Nielsen found that US teenagers send an average of 3,339 texts every month, up 8 percent over last year.
The obsession with tapping out short messages on phones is even worse among teenage girls. They are sending an average of 4,050 texts a month, compared to 2,539 for boys, the study found.
Kids in the 13-17 age group were by far the most prolific texters. The next age group, adults ages 18-24, logged 1,630 texts a month.
Rampant texting came at the expense of voice-calling - as monthly talk time for teens dropped 14 percent to 646 minutes. Here, too, girls were more intense communicators than boys, yakking for 753 minutes monthly versus 525 minutes for boys.
