The Pew Research Center interviewed 799 teens and found that the average teen texts a whopping 60 times per day. The study included a significant increase in teens using smartphones, and a jump in the number of texts sent by black teenagers.
Only 29 percent of the kids interviewed said they talked to friends on the phone every day.



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