texting rates, and ints consequencies

     In the articale, "Texting May Be Taking A Toll" written by Katie Hafner, the author states that teenagers text late nights while there parents are asllep. or while in school, sneaking it behind there backs.
     The texting rates in teens are skyrockiting! They say teens that text way to much thumbs are hurting. Some parents are very concerned about there teens habits.
     Some moblie networks such as AT&T and Verizon wireless, studied that in the year 2008, teenagers that live America sent and recieved on average 2,272 messages a month. that is about 80 messages per one day and that is over twice a s much since the year before that.
     Pediatritans, Physicians, and Psychologist are studeying the behaviors of teenagers due to there texting habits. Dr. Martin Joffe, who is a pediatritan is studnying the sleep habits of teens while they raise in texting levels.
     Dr. Joffe studied that students are sending hunderds of texts per one day. he states, "thats one every few minutes" he then said, "then you hear thes e kids are respondig to texts late at tnight. Thats going to cause sleep issues in an age group thats already plagued with sleep issues."
     Greg Hardesy who is a reporter studeyed that a 13 year old student, Renia who lives in in Lake Forest California, sent about 14,528 text messages in one month. She would put her phone on vibrate while shes sleeping so she could be awakened by the lights and get a new message to retort to.
     Recently Renia's grades have gone down dramatically. She got more texts after the report was put out. At that time she sent and recieved about 24,000 texts a month. once her parents saw how horrible she was doing in school, she got her phone token away from her.
     Every since she had her phone tooken, her grades have improved and she is limited to 5,000 messages amonth. her parents also have stopped the late night texting, she is only allowed to text from 9 p.m. - 6p.m. on the weekdays.
     teenagers arent the only people texting and not doing what they have to do. Parents are also skyrocketing textmessages. After coming from aballet practice teens dont want to see there parents texting away and not paying attention.
    Reina states, "the fantasy of every adolescent is that the parent is there, waiting, expectant, completly for them.' When Reina says this you can tell that texting has not only become a problem for the new generation, it has also become a big problem for parents and older generations.