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> More than adults. Girls send, on average, about 3,952 text messages a month, and boys send closer to 2,815 text messages a month

The average boy sends 2,815 text messages per month? 94 per day? 6 per waking hour, every hour, every day, every week for a month? On average?

The average girl sends 8 text messages per waking hour, every hour?

Wow.

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Consider that each line in a conversation is a separate text. So if you have a 5 min conversation with a friend, each of you spends 15s on a reply, then you have 10 texts in that conversation. And that was just a short conversation.

If you phrase it as "the average teen says 94 sentences to his friends each day", that doesn't sound so extreme. And a good portion of those sentence will come in a few much longer conversations.

What the report actually says is that the typical teen sends and receives 30 texts per day.

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