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THE AVERAGE TEEN SENDS 1,742 TEXT MESSAGES EVERY MONTH:

Remember when people used their cell phones to actually TALK to one another? Well, those days are long gone. How do I know? According to a recent Nielsen study, the average number of text messages sent by teens who have their own cell phone . . . is 1,742 a month.

If you do the math, that works out to roughly 57 text messages per day. (Are you trying to figure out how this could possibly be true? Allow me to explain . . .)

First of all, the kids love to CC their entire contacts list . . . to send the same message to all of their friends simultaneously. So if your kid sends one text to all of his friends . . . that counts as 50 or so text messages.

Also, the tally goes up any time someone else sends a text message to your kid. In other words, your kid might only send 10 texts a day, but if he gets 40 from his friends . . . that counts as 50 messages, from a billing standpoint. (New York Post)