texting
How Often Do Teens Text?
Researchers show that U.S. teenagers on average send or receive a half-dozen texts every wakening hour, which amounts to 3,339 messages per month. The Neilson Company shows that teens aged 13-17 text more often than people in any other age group. In this age group, girls exchanged the most texts, at 4,050 a month, while [...]
World’s Most Awesome SMS / Text Message
Got this from my dad a few minutes ago. It was too good not to save for posterity: I win.
T-Mobile Adds Kids are Free Plan to Help Your Budget
If you’re a parent, you know how difficult it is to maintain proper communications within your family these days. Kids are involved in more activities than ever. Parents are busier than ever. We cannot freeze time, and we cannot seem to get in touch every time we need to. Mobile plans aren’t cheap, and many [...]
Who Texts While Driving?
According to a new study, it’s not teens who text the most while driving. The guilty parties, actually, are adults. The Pew Research Center says that of those adults polled, 47 percent of respondents admit they either send or read messages while at the wheel of a vehicle. Amongst teens aged 16 and 17, only [...]
Do Teens Text Too Much?
According to a study done by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, young people between the ages of 12 and 17 send more than 100 texts a day. This may be due in part to the many unlimited plans offered by most cell companies. Texting beats out every other form of communication for this [...]
Stop the Facebook Chain Message Madness!
If you’re on Facebook, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Recently, we’ve seen more than our fair share of chain messages making their way around, but not in our Inbox. These lovely little pieces of garbage are being sported right in the status boxes of thousands of profiles! One message claimed that if you [...]
How to Send SMS Text Messages to Groups of Friends
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed So what is Tatango? It’s a free site that allows you to text message umpteen-billion people at once. Standard texting rates will apply, of course. If you have something important to say, why not tell everyone all at once? There are [...]
The Chemistry of Texting English in High School
Justin McKey is a high school student who was handed an interesting assignment: I was sitting in Chemistry class today and my teacher gave us the strangest assignment. She told us that we would be writing a summary about a paragraph in the Chemistry book, concerning Phospholipids. But here’s the twist. I would be required [...]
