As most parents of adolescents know all too well, text messaging has become the preferred method of communication for American teenagers, with one in three teens sending more than 100 texts a day, a new survey says.
The survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project illustrates the indispensable role that text messaging, and mobile phones in general, play in the lives of today’s teenagers.
Three-quarters of 12- to 17-year-olds own cell phones, up from 45 percent in 2004, and daily text messaging to friends has increased rapidly in recent years.
