Tween Girls Blaze Through 100 Texts a Day: Pew Internet Report

Texting is the preferred method of communication between American teenagers, the latest Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project report has found--and they're sending and receiving thousands a month.

Eight hundred 12- to 17-year-olds and their parents were surveyed for three months last year for a survey by Pew, and while the fact that almost three-quarters of them use cell phones is impressive--proving to be both help and hindrance to their parents--it is the minutiae of the...