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=Teens, Cell Phones and Texting=

by Amanda Lenhart
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1572/teens-cell-phones-text-messages

Works Cited: Lenhart, By Amanda. "Teens, Cell Phones and Texting." //Pew Research Center//. Copyright © 2011 Pew Research Center, 20 Apr. 2010. Web. 15 Nov. 2011.

=**Summary**=

The mobile phone has become the number one communication hub for the majority of American Teens. The mobile phone is also the number one texting phone that has become the preferred channel of basic communication between teens and their friends. Among all teens that text, their frequency of the use of texting on their cell phone has now overtaken the frequency of every other common form of interaction with their friends.

=**Facts**=


 * More than half of teens (54%) are daily texters.
 * Half of teens send 50 or more text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month, and one in three send more that 100 texts a day, or more than 3,000 texts a month.
 * 15% of teens who are texters send more than 200 texts a day, or more than 6,000 texts a month.
 * 14 - 17 year - old texters typically send a receive 60 text messages a day.
 * Older girls who text are the most active, with 14-17 year-old girls typically sending 100 or more messages a day or more than 3,000 texts a month.
 * [|Girls typically send and receive 80 texts a day; boys send and receive 30].
 * 64% of [|parents look at the contents of their child's cell phone] and 62% of parents have taken away their child's phone as punishment.
 * 64% of teens with cell phones have texted in class; 25% have made or received a call during class time.
 * 41% of teens from households earning less than $30,000 annually say they go online with their cell phone. Only 70% of teens in this income category have a computer in the home, compared with 92% of families from households that earn more.
 * 94% of parents and 93% of teens ages 12-17 with cell phones agreed with the statement: "I feel safer because I can always use my cell phone to get help." Girls and mothers especially appreciate the [|safety aspects of cell ownership].
 * 48% of cell-owning teens get irritated when a call or [|a text message interrupts] what they are doing, compared with 38% of the cell-owning parents.
 * 26% have [|been bullied or harassed] through text messages and phone calls.
 * 69% of teen cell phone users have a phone that is part of a contract covering all of their family's cell phones.
 * **4% of teens say they have sent a sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude image of themselves to someone via text message.**
 * The teens who pay their own phone bills are more likely to send "sexts": 17% of teens who pay for all of the costs associated with their cell phones send sexually suggestive images via text; just 3% of teens who do not pay for or only pay for a portion of the cost of the cell phone send these images.
 * **One in three (34%) texting teens ages 16-17 say they have [|texted while driving]. That translates into 26% of all American teens ages 16-17**.
 * Half (52%) of cell-owning teens ages 16-17 say they have talked on a cell phone while driving. That translates into 43% of all American teens ages 16-17.