US teens confess to 60-a-day texting FRENZY A rise in boys and older teens texting has pushed the average number of text messages American youngsters send to 60 a day, ten more than in 2009. That means the average American teenager awake from 7am until 10pm sends a text every 15 minutes. The survey by Pew Research quizzed 799 UA teens aged between 12 and 17 about their …
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"Also smart phones with real or virtual qwerty keyboards make it easy to use full words and cheap deals mean there no need anymore to shortern ur txts"
I rejoice! We only have part of a generation that thinks randomly dropping letters is acceptable in professional writing!
"That means the average American teenager awake from 7am until 10pm sends a text every 15 minutes."
...........then we need look no further for an explanation for why our cousins over the other side of the pond are so worried about their education system. In those circumstances how the fuck you would be able to concentrate on anything other than your shiney and your unbelievably important social interactions when you are at junior/senior high (allegedly getting an education) is beyond me. If, of course, these stats are anything other than complete and utter spherical objects.
Not to worry...it carries right through to University here as well.
I am an IT Admin for a major East coast University...and the little charmers regularly LEAVE THE CLASSROOM during class, to communicate with their playmates. And Mummy & Daddy are paying a pretty penny for them to be IN the classrooms.
And then there are the throngs who stumble around campus with their heads down, feverishly tapping away on their phones. completely oblivious to their surroundings, walking into people as they go. What a bunch of Dullards the world is producing.
> then we need look no further for an explanation for why our cousins over the other side of the
> pond are so worried about their education system
Or we *could* look further, if we're, y'know, interested in actually learning anything about the situation, rather than just guessing based on our prejudices.
It's just possible that there have been substantial, methodologically-sound studies done on the effects of texting in the classroom, and that they've found that there's little evidence it detracts from the learning process. But why should we listen to actual researchers when we have random Internet posters offering their wisdom?
Broadly speaking, students today do far more writing than those of any other generation in history. And preliminary research suggests that about the same proportion as always care about, and are capable of, writing well (in all the various senses of that phrase). What's changed is how much text is produced by those not in that group; in the past, those people typically didn't write much, so their poor writing wasn't nearly as noticeable.
All things considered, this is as good a time to be teaching writing as any other period in history. It can be argued quite plausibly that it's better.
Yup, the 40+ year old woman my wife nearly ran down due to her walking out in front of the car at a busy junction is definately within that age range.
Lets be honest - teenagers have grown up with this tech and if they've survived to 14-18 age range, they going to be aware of how to "look for cars" while crossing the road. Its the older generation who can't cope with doing the 10 things at once (Hense this report! :D )
The little shits are now texting WHILE DRIVING...and I personally have nearly been run off the road several times recently by some idiot child texting at 80 MPH.
Just because they " have grown up with this tech", doesn't mean they are any better at knowing how to use it RESPONSIBLY.
what are they discussing? I mean if they spend all this time texting, then all I can see them saying is : "I JST TXTD K8-LOLZ" as opposed to "I just had a sit down and think about the General Theory of Relativity. It really is quite something to contemplate. Oh yes, LOLZ!"
One of my daughters (14) complained that she was being charged for her 'unlimited' texts from O2. When I investigated 'unlimited' meant 3500 per month - enough you'd think. No, she smashes that inside 2 weeks and not by mass texting to the tune of 7500 per month.
....we've since had words......
I wonder what was the most intelligent thing ever said that was sent by sms .' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney. You're gonna be fine.' 'Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.'
...that text messaging, the cash cow savior of the mobile operators, will be their undoing. Delivering short text messages over the interweb (it's really just a series of pipes, y'know) will collapse their revenue overnight. It's already here in iMessage on iOS for example.
The phone call is dead. The only thing of value that carriers have left is the phone number and a nice trove of usage data. Time to move on.
My career is designing and selling DDC Control systems, most often to schools and colleges.
I regularly see tables of students sitting together texting each other (and the rest of the world).
They are not speaking although they are within inches of each other and not even looking at one another (or anything but the damn phone).
Don't they understand that they cannot have decent sex while texting? That you're digits have other uses than tapping on a keyboard? That you have to see the sparkle in her eyes to know for sure if she is "The One" so you have to look at the opposite sex on occaision (at least).
If this crap does not stop, humanity will become hunched over, half blind, flipper handed, deaf, & dumb troglodytes. Oh wait, it already has.
"Don't they understand that they cannot have decent sex while texting?"
You obviously haven't sexted with the right people. It'll never replace the real thing, natch, but that doesn't mean it can't be decent.
Or, ahem, so I've heard.
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