Is you teenage son or daughter addicted to his or her phone? Good (?) news: they’re not alone. It comes to a surprise to practically no one that teens are, as a rule, obsessed with text messaging, but even with that in mind, these numbers from Nielsen are a bit staggering.
The organization released a study this week that stating that teens, on average, send 3,339 text messages a month. That number breaks down to about six texts for every hour they spend awake.
Nielsen surveyed some 60,000 mobile users from May to June to get the numbers. 3,000 of the users were teenagers. Breaking the study down by gender, it seems that teenage females send 4,050 texts a months. Males are a bit lower at 2,539. Combined, that number is up by eight percent from a year prior.
The next highest texting group, age 18 to 24, sends about 1,630, on average, and while that number is far less than the teenage bracket (13 to 17), the study found that the numbers rose in all age groups.
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