“[T]he younger people are, the more likely they are to text. | More than eight out of ten people under the age of 25 are more likely to send someone a text message than call. | But, at the other end of the scale, just 14% of those aged over 55 said they preferred to text.” —Young BBC)

This article summarizes a report issued by a mobile phone company — take both the article and the report with the appropriate caution, since people are notoriously inaccurate whenit comes to answering pollster’s questions about their own behavior.

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