Teens Spend 95 Minutes per Day Texting

Young people in the United States now spend 49 minutes per day on average on their mobile phone doing things other than talking such as playing games and getting on the world wide web, according to a new

Teens: 95 minutes per day texting!

study by Kaiser Family Foundation.  Add to that an average of 33 minutes talking on the cell phone and kids 8-18 are spending one hour, 22 minutes per day using their cell phones.

Of youth 8 to 18, 66% now own their own cell phones up from just 39% five years ago.  This compares to 76% that own ipods.

The Kaiser study, however, didn’t add text messaging to its statistics for some reason.  Teens in grades 7 through 12 now spend an average of 95 minutes per day sending or receiving text messages.

How do these kids have time to study?

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