My 13-year-old does not even have a cell phone, so watching my 14-year-old nephew interact with his cell phone was an enlightening experience. After watching him all weekend, I decided to record an audio conversation with him. He sends and receives over 12,000 text messages per month. But his volume is not even close to some of his friends.
I wasn't even allowed to talk to people on the phone at 14. Will it change how he interacts in the future. Absolutely. And it leaves me scratching my head and asking lots of questions.
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
I love listening to teens talk about how they use tech in their lives. Its very different from the way adults experience…
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
Indeed. I may actually try to get a room full of his friends together and get them to talk about it as a group. Might be…
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
The funny thing is, teen boys never have anything to say, so if you had 'em all together, they'd just stand around…
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
Definitely fascinating. They probably think we are nuts for thinking that their behavior is so odd. I also think they…
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
Am I the only one who is scared by this? A fourteen year old's brain is still developing, and his parents whether they…
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
If I do my math, there are about 43,200 minutes/month. Subtract out that wasted "sleep time" (let's say 6 hours per…
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
Very interesting point about beginning and ending conversations as part of the conversational change. I wonder how much…
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
Did you get any sense of what the inbound-to-outbound ratio is?
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
He seemed to think that is was relatively equal, with people actually holding conversations.
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
Wow ... now that's impressive. I probably use about 500 text messages a month, but I'd guess that 400 of them are…
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
As a kid, my parents were able to monitor who was in my circle of friends and consequently influencing me by simply…
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
I know! He could barely get more than 3 words out. I am totally used to this b/c my brothers are 19 and 21 so growing…
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
This is why they cannot communicate! My 21 year old brother is going for law school interviews and has NO IDEA what to…
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
My friend showed her 9 yr-old daughter how to txt and fully regrets it now. Since her daughter has a parent controlled…
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
I have lots of questions and concerns as well, but mostly around how I'm going to behave as a Father.
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
Michael, I think your math is about right and it's scary.
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
I think he is just uttering and tweeting all the time. No harm in that. He has an internet following.
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
If only that were true. :) He had not heard of Twitter or Utterz and I was afraid to tell him.
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
Does he realize what this just did to his social status??? Uncle Jeff just made him a Rock Star!!! · · Before Unlimited…
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
Jeff, this is great stuff! Having two teens in the house myself, I'm always looking for a little insight, and this was…
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
Jeff, Your nephews answeres sounded like there were done in short text burst. · · I too am guilty "communicating" all…
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Interview With A 14-Year-Old Text Message Addict
I remember when I first got online and got my ICQ account, I was constantly messaging people. And they were messaging me…
