Texting

The average teen sends 20 texts per day... scary.
I'm going to assume that each text takes around... lets say 10 seconds, give or take a few.

10x20: 200 seconds per day spent on texting
200x365: 73,000 seconds per year, or 1,216 minutes, or 20.25 hours.
73000x80= 5,840,000 seconds in an average life, or 97,333 minutes, or 1622 hours.

That translates into 811 days or 2.22 years!

So, is texting as much as we do now a-day a bad thing?


Please, nobody add a poll until the choices are more clear.

I myself am strictly against texting. While using it occasionally if someone's phone isn't on or if you're sending a file is okay, these extensive conversations that most teens have are just crazy! I saw a girl on the news that drove up a 500-page phone bill. WTF? And just looking for some of the info for this, I saw a concerned parent asking if her daughter sending 7000 texts a month was too much. I think this is WAY out of hand. In the well-put words of my uncle after getting my cousin a phone with texting, "If you don't have enough balls to call the person up and talk to them, you shouldn't be texting them."

I don't have texting, and if I did, I wouldn't spend near as much time on it as most of my friends.

But you can get a ton more done on a computer than on a phone, and 500x as fast. I can keyboard about half as fast as I can talk (sometimes just as fast), but I text at like 2 words per minute.

Very true, but the conversations are just kinda stupid. Many of my friends just text each other back and forth at night until they fall asleep.