US kids go text crazy – average 3,339 texts a month

By DPA,

San Francisco: It’s official: American teenagers are text-crazy.


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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.

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