Summary
According to a Nielsen poll conducted in late 2008, teens in the United States send and receive on average 80 texts daily, a number that doubled in only a year (Hafner 2009). [...] between one-third and one-half of the adolescents surveyed reported using shortened words and emoticons in school assignments (Lenhart 2009).
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Texting
2004 to Now
Between the years 2004 and 2007, the proportion of teenagers who own cell phones increased from 45% to 71%, and more than four-fifths of teens aged fifteen through seventeen have their own cell phones. Even for young people from lower income or minority families, cell ownership is strong (Lenhart, et al. 2008). Likewise, cell phone use and ownership among 'tweens and younger children is growing: 46% of eight to twelve year olds use cell phones and the average age for receiving a first cell phone is about ten (Covey 2008). A cursory glance around any place where young people congregate ...See the full content of this document
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