Who does 8000 texts per month?
A thirteen year old teen does, Can this be an issue?
Thirteen-year-old Morgan Pozgar, of Claysburg, Pa., was crowned LG National Texting champion on Saturday after she typed “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” from “Mary Poppins” in 15 seconds.”I’m going to go shopping and buy lots of clothes,” the teen said after winning her $25,000 prize from the electronics company LG.Pozgar defeated nearly 200 other competitors at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan to become East Coast champion. She then beat West Coast champion Eli Tirosh, 21, of Los Angeles texting the message: “Supercalifragilisticexpialidoucious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. If you say it loud enough you’ll always sound precocious.” She estimated that she sends more than 8,000 text messages a month to her friends and family.
On the flip side…
Texting can create such issues as sleep deprivation. Teens are famously sleep-deprived already, but experts say some are compounding the problem by staying up into the middle of the night to silently type messages to friends on their cellphones. The tiny phones — with increasingly sophisticated capabilities — are supplanting late-night computer messaging and making it even more difficult for parents to know when kids are really asleep. “Most kids go to sleep with their phone plugged in right by their heads,”. Every ping of an incoming message is a temptation to pick up the phone. They know talking on the phone might wake up their parents, but if they text, it probably won’t.
Also, the latest trend in the saga of teens behind the wheel is texting while driving — that is, kids sending and receiving text messages via cell phone while they’re rolling down the road, radios blasting. Throughout the country, there have been a handful of traffic deaths connected to texting, according to various news reports. Texting has become a main form of communication among teenagers. They’re physically dextrous and some are able to type out messages without looking at the phone keypad.In a study published in August 2006, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety had teens rank various driving distractions and its surveys revealed that 37% of teens said text messaging was extremely or very distracting. Text messaging was ranked as the No. 1 driving distraction. In 2005, The Allstate Foundation found that 13% – an estimated 1.6 million teens – drive while reading or writing text messages.
Teenage texting can lead to a series of issues, but not in the case of Morgan Pozgar!
