How long until schools are organizing D.A.R.E.-like anti-addiction programs to get kids off texting?
American kids under 18 send and receive roughly 2,800 texts per month, according to Nielsen, or about 93 per day. Assuming 7 hours of sleep per night, on average, that's about 5.5 per hour spent awake, or one every 10 minutes or so. In the next two age brackets, text-message usage falls by more than half each.
But it's people ages 18-24 who talk the most on their cellphones, according to Nielsen, averaging 981 minutes per month. These are probably the people most likely to not have landline phones, so this also makes sense.
To read the full, original article click on this link: CHART OF THE DAY: Kids Text Every 10 Minutes When They're Awake
Author: Dan Frommer
