According to TechCrunch, the average child age 13-17 sends about 3500 texts per month, which they equated to about seven texts for every hour awake; while at first this does seem like a lot of message spamming, allow me to elaborate (and make some tie-ins with statistical data to that Support packet we read in AP Lang...)
Assuming I'm in a conversation, which I do quite frequently with cell phones, the conversation generally lasts longer than two text messages, let alone seven; for example, my brother often tells me of his 3-part response due to content, which makes 3 text messages within one conversation. While I don't quite make a 3-part text (it's usually two), the 160 character limit reduces the amount that can be sent; the limit needs to taken into consideration when counting the numerous texts.
On the other hand, the facts that teenagers text the most out of any age group is definitely significant, especially since seven hours out of the 15 hours they're typically awake are spent sitting in a classroom where cell phone usage is forbidden; the statistics provided by TechCruch should at least tell of the timeframe, as it's unknown if this data is from summer break or during the school year. If the data was taken during the school year, then yes, this would be a major statistic; but if this was taken during the summer, it's completely normal for me to send seven texts an hour.
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