Sue Shellenbarger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

For Teens, Has Texting Replaced Talking?

September 4, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

I’ve always known my kids use digital communications gear a lot. But my cellphone bill last month really grabbed my attention.

My son had racked up nearly 2,000 incoming text messages, and had sent nearly as many. That means he was having more than 60 two-way communications via text message every day. Of course, he was out of school for the summer and communicating more with friends from a distance. Nevertheless, I had to wonder how he found time to hold down a summer job and complete a college course in between all that typing with his thumb.

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