OMG, Teens and Their Phones  OMG, Teens and Their Phones
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Jul 12, 2012  The statistic was so stark, spoke so loudly, that
it almost HAD to be wrong.  At a recent session organized to
share information about kids in our digital world, FCC Chairman
Julius Genachowski quickly threw out this stunner: The average
teen sends one text message every 10 minutes while awake.  One
of the panelists at that Washington, D.C. forum, Stephen Balkam,
reassured the statistic was, in fact, incorrect. "Phew!" you
might be thinking. But not so fast. Balkam, president of the
Family Online Safety Institute, said the real figure is actually
higher.  A recent survey showed the average teen texts about 200
times a day, he explained. Divide that into a 16-hour day and
you end up with one text every five minutes.  So the obvious
question is whether the almost hypnotic attraction of so much
digital technology available to kids - whether it's texting,
playing online games wi