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According to an April 2010 study by the Pew Research Center:
“Cell-phone texting has become the preferred channel of basic communication between teens and their friends, with cell calling a close second. Some 75% of 12-17 year-olds now own cell phones, up from 45% in 2004. Those phones have become indispensable tools in teen communication patterns. Fully 72% of all teens -- or 88% of teen cell phone users -- are text-messagers. That is a sharp rise from the 51% of teens who were texters in 2006. More than half of teens (54%) are daily texters.”
The chart below shows the
frequency of use of texting in teens compared to other forms of
communication. This study was from 2010 –
just imagine what the stats and numbers would look like today!
