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Teens pile up a bunch of text messages
William Atkins
Friday, 15 October 2010 23:38
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According to the Nielson Company, teenagers in the United States are using text messages on average 3,339 times per month. That's over 40,000 in a year!
Texting allows short text messages - 160 characters or less per message -- between Web/mobile phone devices.
About three out of four mobile phone users use texting, with approximately 2.4 billion active text messaging users worldwide.
PC World summarizes this Nielsen report in its October 14, 2010 article "US Teens Text 3,339 Times a Month, Nielsen Says.'
It states that teens in the United States text 3,339 times per month, which relates to about 33.4 times day (for a 30-day month), or (PC World says) about 'six messages per waking hour'.
However, if the average teen sleeps nine hours a day, then the number of waking hours is 15 hours, which would make for about 2.2 text messages per waking hour.
In either case, that's quite of few text messages each day for U.S. teenagers.
The PC World article states, 'That's increasingly the attitude of teens in the U.S., who used their mobile phones to send and receive an average of 3,339 texts per month in the second quarter, according to The Nielsen Co. SMS (Short Message Service) is now the main reason to own a cell phone, according to teens in the U.S.'
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