Texting On the Rise In the US

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."

Welcome to the 21st Century America!

[Nick Fel]

We're glad you could join us in blindly walking into lamp posts while stumbling and texting down the street.

How long until...

[Anonymous Coward]

People with unlimited texting become throttled for "being an above average strain on the network" or some other bullshit like that?

The difference...

[Anonymous Coward]

...is that adults are texting during driving a car, that's more difficult.

I'd hate to be...

[Antony-Kyre]

that addicted to something.

Then again, I use IRC. But, as long as something isn't controlling your life, no harm I guess.

lolomg rly?

[metalmaster]

IN LATE BREAKING NEWS: Kids with all the time in the world spend it texting their friends! Adults on the other hand, well, they do more productive things; like less texting.

Re:Progress

[hex0D]

you don't buy many groceries at one time do you? How many items can you list in 140 characters?

Re:Welcome to the year 2000 USA!

[Anonymous Coward]

For me in the UK I would prob say this happened around the year 2000 if not before. So this prob means litres, kilograms, meters and ISO paper is just around the corner for the USA soon then :-)

Is UK planning an invasion to keep us from using the units they came up with in the first place?