"Our society has gone mad with texting." "Teen females send an incredible 4,050 text per month, while teen males send an average of 2,539 texts. Teens are sending 8 percent more texts than they were this time last year."
The report states: "These stats are eye-popping, but what's even more amazing is that these numbers only keep rising. Texting, data usage and app downloads are nowhere near their peak, but one has to wonder: how many texts is the average teenager actually capable of sending? What's the limit?" If one could constantly stay awake then, theoretically, one could achieve 100% texting. One's being would become, metaphysically, "Texting." I text, therefore I am. I am. I am a Text.
But so what? For me it's this. I have couples in my church whose major mode of commuication is texting. I have counseled marriage in crisis to stop negative-texting and speak face-to-face. My advice is, mostly, no taken. Some couples now cannot communicate except by texting. Should I offer a "save your marriage" conference that's entirely done via texting? Except... I don't send or receive texts. (See the right side of the Nielsen report chart above.)
(See also Nicholas Carr's The Shallows on how texting is morphing our neuroplastic brains.)
