More evidence that texting is totally destroying our nation’s youth: kids who do it a lot are more likely to drink, have sex, and get in fights.
On the heels of a study showing that late-night texting can cause insomnia and mood problems in kids, researchers have now found that kids who are “hyper-texters” — that is, who send 120 text or more per day — are more likely to engage in sex, drinking, and physical fights than their peers who text less. They’re also more likely to take illegal drugs or abuse prescription drugs. “Hyper-networkers,” those who spend three or more hours a day on social networking sites, were even more likely than hyper-texters to drink or fight, but not as likely to be sexually active. And a pretty large chunk of teens fall into these category — in a sample of 4200 kids from Cleveland high schools, one in five was a hyper-texter, one in nine was a hyper-networker, and one in 25 was both.
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