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US kids go text crazy - average 3,339 texts a month
Oct 15, 2010, 20:49 GMT
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 per cent 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 per cent to 646 minutes. Here, too, girls were more intense communicators than boys, yakking for 753 minutes monthly versus 525 minutes for boys.
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