Articles tagged with: Teenagers and Sms

2,000+ Unknown Words Used by Teens in More Than 1.2 Million Text Messages Every Minute

LG Electronics has carried out a survey of text messaging habits by US teenagers that revealed that teens and their younger counterparts--tweens--are sending 20,209 texts every second, or more than 1.2 million texts every minute, in the USA.  more

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EU calls on mobile operators to continue to improve child safety policies

Half of 10 year-old, 87% of 13 year-old and 95% of 16 year-old children in the EU have a mobile phone, but half of European parents worry mobile phone use might expose their children to sexually and violently explicit images (51%) or bullying by other children (49%), according to a survey. The European Commission has now called on mobile operators to do more to keep children safe while using mobile phones by putting in place all the measures in the voluntary code of conduct, signed by 26 mobile operators in 2007.  more

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