Nearly 2 in 5 teens whose families earn less than $30,000 annually say they never use text messaging, compared with just 20% of teens from families earning more than $75,000 per year. Lower income teens are more likely to say that they never send text messages, and higher income teens are slightly more likely to say they send and receive texts every day. Older girls ages 14-17 are the most avid texters – 69% say they text their friends every day, while 53% of boys the same age report daily texting. Girls are more likely to text than boys with 77% of all girls texting while 68% of boys do. Younger teens are much more likely to say that they never send or receive text messages – 46% of 12 year-olds do not text only 17% of 17 year-olds do not text. Text messaging frequency increases as teens age – 35% of 12 year-olds say they text daily, while 54% of 14 year-olds and 70% of 17 year-olds text everyday. Between February 2008 and September 2009, daily use of text messaging by teens shot up from 38% in 2008 to 54% of all teens saying they text every day in 2009. More markedly, the frequency of teenagers’ texting has also increased rapidly over the year and half leading up to this study. 39 Since 2006, text messaging has increased significantly from 51% of teens who were text users. A middle school boy in the focus groups enthused, “The best thing about is social, texting.” Overall, 72% of all teens ages 12-17 send and receive text messages, and 88% of teens with cell phones text. Text messaging has become an increasingly important part of teens’ overall communication strategy. Part 1: Text messaging explodes as teens embrace it as a vital form of daily communication with friends. The chapter is broken into four parts that analyze: 1) the role of texting in teens’ lives 2) the role of cell voice calling in teens’ lives 3) the way texting and cell voice calling fit into the larger scheme of teen communication patterns and 4) the other activities that teens perform on their ever-more-sophisticated handheld devices. This chapter addresses the new roles that cell phones play in the communication patterns of teens.
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