Heres what some of the latest research is showing:
Spurred by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Company — almost 80 messages a day, more than double the average of a year earlier.
The phenomenon is beginning to worry physicians and psychologists, who say it is leading to anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation.
Dr. Martin Joffe, a pediatrician in Greenbrae, Calif., recently surveyed students at two local high schools and said he found that many were routinely sending hundreds of texts every day.
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I completely agree. I text all the time. When I first got my cell phone my father set a time to turn it off around 10:30. That rule has slowly disappeared. Every night since then I end up staying up later do to texting. Which causes me to be sleep in more and more.
My knowledge on word spelling has slowly went down. To the point I need to check my spelling constantly when doing school work, writing emails and writing in general. I have tried to start spelling words the correct way(instead of ur for your & u for you in each text) But its addicting. Texting is a whole new way of speaking.
The ability to be able to play games with friends and text other friends at the same time has taken a whole new direction to doing two things at once.
For the whole grades going down during school part I have to say Texting has been some what helpful. I know when I need to pay attention 100% But school can get boring and I have noticed texting here and there keeps my mind more open to what the teachers are teaching. This keeps the class more positive. A few times I have just wanted to walk out but i havent because my friends help me through it.
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