American children prefer to communicate with their friends by text messages every day

May 25, according to foreign media reports, according to the Pew Research Center through the New York Times implementation of the latest "Internet and American Life Plan" survey, 54% of the 12-17-year-old American children daily to send text messages to friends, and daily use voice phone only accounted for 38%, face-to-face conversation accounted for 33%,　　The use of terrestrial lines accounted for 30%, accounting for 25% of social networks such as Facebook or Twitter.　　At the same time, 10-year-olds are starting to get bored with instant messaging and e-mail, which accounts for only 24% of the time they use instant Messaging to send messages to friends, and only 11% use e-mail. What does this data mean? Is it that children today do not like face-to-face conversation and prefer to use text messaging? Not necessarily. The key word for Pew's survey question is "every day."　　I think it is more feasible to use text messages every day than face-to-face or daily by phone, especially on weekends and holidays. Pew's survey shows that 10-year-old children send a large amount of text messages every day. One-third of children send more than 100 messages a day. 15% of children send more than 200 messages a day. On the other hand, not every child is a texting freak.　　22% of children say they send fewer than 10 messages a day. Another interesting figure in the Pew survey is that girls send more text messages than boys. The average number of SMS messages per day for boys is 30, and the average number of SMS messages per day for girls is 80.