As a teenager, text messaging is the most used form of communication. It is not uncommon for some teens to exchange over 20,000 text messages a month! 

Just for fun, let's do some math...

• Out of the 20,000 messages, around 10,000 are sent messages. 
  
• 10,000 divided by 30 days in a month is about 333 sent messages per day. 
  
• For this example's sake let's say the texter is awake for 15 hours a day. 
  
• 333/15 hours= just over 22 texts an hour. 
  
• This eqates to around 1 SENT text every 2 minutes and 45 seconds!
  

My personal opinion on this texting obsession is it is taking away from a teenager's ability to develop their personal conversation skills. In the real world, beyond the cell world, a person is required to deal with problems and situations in a face to face enviroment. There is no way to "hide behind the cell phone" in this case.

Another idea to keep in mind is people can say or be anything they want via a text message. There is no emotion attached to a text. They can say whatever they want, with no immediate consequences. They can be as hurtful, rude, or vulgar as can be, with no repercussions. This is not establishing good conflict resolution habits.

I have learned from this sort of behavior. One of my past relationships ended partly due to lack of communication. My significant other refused to discuss our issues unless it was via text messaging.  She was one of the 20k+ a month texters...

Of course, this led to difficulties between us, but she would never discuss these problems unless...yup, you guessed it! Unless it was through texting! This evil circle of texting was ruining, and eventually ended a great relationship!!

In closing, do I think texting is bad? No. 

Do I think we should text less? Yes I do. It is taking away from how we handle real world problems. 

Text away my friends, text away...