Text Messaging Could be Interrupting Sleep - KCBD NewsChannel 11
Lubbock   Text Messaging Could be Interrupting Sleep  You may
think your teenagers have gone to sleep when their room is dark
and the TV is off, but a report in a British Medical Journal
reveals a high tech signal could be keeping them up at night and
cheating them out of much needed sleep.  The problem is called
text messaging, which are written messages passed through cell
phones, which beep to get your attention.  "It's the new thing.
Everyone is text messaging nowadays in the 2003. Yeah!"  "You
can write whatever you want, like hello."  "It beeps and then I
wake up and I answer it or I don't answer it."  And it's that
little beep that is the problem. Belgian researchers found in a
study of 2,500 teens that more than 40% of the 16 year-olds in
the study were regularly interrupted in their sleep because of
late night text messaging.  "Teenagers are teenagers and so
their sleep is fragmented. The normal amount of sleep a teenager
should have is