Teens, Texting | featured news

Teens who text 120 times a day or more — and there seems to be a lot of them — are more likely to have had sex or used alcohol and drugs than kids who don't send as many messages, according to provocative new research.

If you needed more proof that texting is on the rise, here's a stat for you: the average teenager sends over 3,000 texts per month. That's more than six texts per waking hour.

The only contact 15-year-old Wayne Treacy had ever had with 8th grader Josie Lou Ratley before allegedly beating her nearly to death Wednesday was a brief flurry of text messages earlier that day, Florida police say.

More than a quarter of young people have been involved in sexting in some form, an Associated Press-MTV poll found.

A New York City teenager says she was text messaging while walking down the street -- and the next second she was down a manhole.

Kids are sending text messages at a frenzied pace. Should parents try to stop it?