Mobile Phone Text Messaging Is Making Children More Impulsive, Claim Researchers

Researchers believe the mobile phone system makes youngsters less thoughtful and more prone to making mistakes elsewhere in life.

Hitting a few keys and then seeing the desired word appear in full trains children to be fast but inaccurate when doing other things, according to scientists.

They warn that the effects of this could have repercussions on a whole generation, especially as more than nine out of 10 16 year-olds now own a handset as well as 40 per cent of primary schoolchildren.

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