According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project research, cell-phone texting has become the preferred channel of basic communication between US teens and their friends (See image below), with cell calling a close second. Some 75% of 12-17 year-olds now own cell phones, up from 45% in 2004. Those phones have become indispensable tools in teen communication patterns. Fully 72% of all teens2 — or 88% of teen cell phone users — are text-messegers. That is a sharp rise from the 51% of teens who were texters in 2006. More than half of teens (54%) are daily texters.

Among all teens, their frequency of use of texting has now overtaken the frequency of every other common form of interaction with their friends via cellphones. This is very similar to the study we did in Cape Town that we covered in a previous post.

Source: Technology for Community Empowerment

Tags: mobile phones, Social Media

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