Youth and Texting

By: Craig Carbonneau

Facts about Texting• Teens receive about 2,272 texts a month• Thats 568 texts a week, 81 a day

individually• Children are getting their cell phones as

low as the ages of eight and nine• With texting, drivers are 23 times more

likely to crash.• Americans sent over 1 TRILLION text

messages in the year 2008 and the number continues to rise.

1,000,000,000,000 Texts

Texting In Class• Kids who text in class do worse than kids

who do not text in class.• Texting in class takes student’s minds off

the lecture and into their conversation.• Texting in class can promote and

constitute cheating by asking others.• With texting in class the student not only

can not pay attention, but can get away with it.

• This promotes our youth to slack and to somehow still get by.

Texting and Driving

• Especially with teens, texting and driving is a very dangerous phenomenon

• Tests show that texting while driving can be as dangerous if not more as DWI

• While in a simulator teens crossed the line, reduced speed, and even hit pedestrians while texting and driving.

• Even if passed it will be a tough law to enforce.

• 40,000 vehicle fatalities can be traced back to distractions, and texting and driving distracts the driver more than most other distractions.

Personal Interaction

and not paying attention to conversation.• With texting and Facebook our lives are

being lived electronically and not personally• Stress from texting is driven into us because

of the unknown of personally meeting someone.

• With today’s era kids and teens tend to hardly interact personally.• When sitting down for dinner, which hardly happens anyway, teens can be seen texting