American teenagers sent an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008 according to the Nielson Company. That is nearly 80 messages a day.
The New York Times reports that all of this texting is starting to worry many physicians and psychologists who say it is leading to anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation.
A pediatrician in Greenbrae, Calif., surveyed students at two local high schools and found that many were sending hundreds of texts every single day. The texts late at night are going to cause sleeping issues in this age group.
However, this rise in texting is too recent to have produced any conclusive data on health effects but it may be causing a shift in the way adolescents develop according to a psychologist's study found in the article.
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