Texting

How Do Kids Communicate?

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 * Facts about texting and video chatting in the 21st century: **
 * According to Textingadvice.com in 2008, 2 out of 3 Americans are texting on a regular basis
 * The response rate to text messages is on average over 90 percent
 * 95 percent of all incoming texts are read

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 * More than 72 percent of cell phone users send and receive text messages according to figures from cellphone.org in 2010. These figures are up 7 percent from 2009.
 * Of 18-29 year olds, 95 percent text message
 * In 2009, US cell phone users sent about 4.1 billion texts every day. That averages out to 17 messages a day for each individual cell phone user.
 * According to Nielson, teenagers send 10 texts per hour during the day which is roughly 3,000 messages a month per teen.
 * As texting rises, people talk on the phone less. In 2007, the average cell phone conversation was 3.13 minutes which was a decade long. In 2009, the average dropped to 2.03 minutes.

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 * According to a 2010 Pew Internet study, an early finding reported that cell phone users among teens the ages of 12-17 have grown steadily over the years. In 2004 the study showed 45 percent of teens had cell phones. This number grew to 63 percent in 2006 and reached 71 percent in early 2008.
 * Cell phone texting has become the favored mode of communication among teens

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Facts about Skype: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">An average of 145 million Skype users connected per month in the fourth quarter of 2010
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Skype users made 207 billion minutes worth of calls in 2010. Forty-two percent of those calls used video.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">At peak times, 30 million Skype users are logged in to the service.

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Be careful when texting and driving: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">A person who texts when driving is 23 times more likely to get in an accident according to a 2009 publication by the website cellphone.org.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1.4 million car crashes a year are caused by cellphones. Of these crashes, 200,000 are due to text messaging.

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">States that have banned texting while driving include: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania (effective March 8th of 2012), Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The District of Columbia has also banned texting while driving

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">According to textingndriving.com, 34 percent of teens who text message admit to texting while driving
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">48 percent of teens say they have been a passenger in a car whose driver was texting

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Be careful what you text: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">According to a 2008 study commissioned by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and Cosmogirl.com, 20 percent of teens said they had sent a sexting message

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">According to a nationally-representative phone survey of minors ages 12-17, four percent of cell phone owners in that age group have sent a sexually suggestive image of themselves to someone else
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">15 percent of cell phone users ages 12-17 have received this kind of image of someone they know personally

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">According to about.com, there are three common stances held by schools today in response to cell phones: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Debate Topic: Should cell phones be allowed in schools? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Students are not allowed to have or use cell phones at all during school hours
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Students are allowed to bring their cell phones to school and can use them during non-instructional periods of free time like lunch and study hall
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Students are allowed to bring their cell phones to school and are encouraged to use them as a learning tool

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Positives to cell phone use by students in schools:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Students can take pictures of in-class projects and show their parents
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Students can text message missed assignments to classmates that are absent
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Students can use the calculator feature if their cell phone has it which most do
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Students can take pictures of notes and study them later

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Cons to cell phone use by students in schools: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The pros and cons listed above were provided by the following website: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Students can send test answers to friends
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Students can record others without their consent
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Students can play games on their cell phones during class
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Students can text their friends during class for non-school related reasons

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Allowing others to gain access to your email address, your profile, and even your name can make for a miserable experience online.

There are four main social networking sites designed for children that try to give them the ability to interact with others and to play games online. Here are different web sites to consider: > 2. Club Penguin > 3. Webkinz > 4. Whyville []
 * 1) Kidswirl

In a world full of distractions, social networking and technology can provide tools for teaching in a way that engages and captivates young minds. Online social networking can also help young people learn how to socialize with their peers; users also show more "virtual empathy."

According to studies, middle school, high school and college students looking at Facebook at least one time during a 15-minute study break made lower grades. In addition, many young Facebook users show more tendencies to be narcissistic.

The new research suggests that overuse of media and technology can negatively affect health of children and teens, especially with psychological disorders- making users more likely to experience anxiety and depression.

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