wow:
A Disney Mobile “Cell and Tell” survey released last week found that cellphone usage among 10-17-year-olds jumps by more than an hour a day in the summer, to more than 3 hours and 45 minutes, compared with usage on a school day.
The poll of more than 1,500 teens and preteens found that 44 percent use text messages as their primary form of communication. More than half — 52 percent — say they send text messages from a movie theater while 28 percent have sent messages from the dinner table.For many — 26 percent — texting is one of the first things they do in the morning, within 10 minutes of waking up.
Almost all respondents — 96 percent — said they communicate with a parent daily via cellphone, while 20 percent said they use a cellphone to connect with Mom or Dad at least five times a day.
i’ll bet only 28% EAT AT A DINNER TABLE!
does the back seat of their friend’s mom’s mini-van post-McDonald’s drive thru count???
I know a lot of people would look at those numbers in a negative light, I cant help but think its all okay (well, maybe not *all* okay…texting from the dinner table woudlnt fly in our house).
But, there are a lot of reasons its in a teen’s best interest to be in connected relationships…and if a cell phone or text messaging helps them do that, I’m all for it.
They forgot the statistic about texting while sitting in a sermon at church.
Saulnier