Teens On Tech: 'I'd Rather Give Up My Kidney Than My Phone'

The Guardian:

First, 75% of all teenagers (and 58% of 12-year-olds) now have a mobile phone. Almost 90% of phone-owning teens send and receive texts, most of them daily. Half send 50 or more texts a day; one in three send 100. In fact, in barely four years, texting has established itself as comfortably "the preferred channel of basic communication between teens and their friends".

Read the whole story: The Guardian

Comments

[turboturd]

02:21 AM on 07/18/2010

D D D

[LittleMittens]

05:54 PM on 07/17/2010

Well, at least teens are making an effort to communicate

[JasonMcl]

02:18 PM on 07/16/2010

You could get a lot more than a that for a healthy young kidney. Although after 6 years of service on at&t the price will be about even.

[mikeyodude7]

08:52 AM on 07/16/2010

This is logical thinking. You have two kidneys. How many people have more than one cell phone? "Like, Duh..."