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=**Article: "**Text Messaging Becomes Centerpiece Communication" By: Amanda Lenhart= Lenhart, Amanda. "Teens, Cell Phones and Texting."

=Summary:= Cell phones have become the center of importance in teen lives. Many teens send at least one hundred text a day. Cell phones are the typical data base for mostly teen girls. Many people not just teens feel that cell phones make their lives more safer. Cell phones had extended their usage. Instead of just texting and calling cell phones become pocket computers. Over the years cell phone use has expanded into a worldwide talkfest.

=Quotes:= 1. According to Research Specialist, Amanda Lenhart, "Cell-phone texting has become the preferred channel of basic communication between teens and their friends, with cell calling a close second."

2. Pew Research says, "Even though most schools treat cell phones as something to be contained and regulated, teens are nevertheless still texting frequently in class."

3. According to Amanda Lenhart, "Teens from low-income households, particularly African-Americans, are much more likely than other teens to go online using a cell phone."

=Facts:= 1. "12% of all students say they can have their phone at school at any time."

2. " Girls typically send and receive 80 texts a day; boys send and receive 30."

3. Teens have used texting more frequently and it has now taken over the frequency of every other common technology

4. "For parents, teens' attachment to their phones is and area of conflict and regulation." ( Some parents do not approve of their child always attached to their phones. Some might get theirs taken away or maybe not able to talk or text after a certain period of time.)

= Works Cited: = Lenhart, Amanda. "Teens, Cell Phones and Texting." //Pew Research Center//. Pew Research, 10 Apr. 2010. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. .