## Step 2 - Reading

Texting teens

Je gaat een korte tekst lezen over tieners en mobieltjes.

- Lees de tekst.
- Denk tijdens het lezen na over de volgende vraag:
  - In de luistertekst van daarnet vertelde Lindsay dat ouderen minder vaak appen dan jongeren. Is de conclusie in deze leestekst hetzelfde of juist niet?

Who has got a cell phone? If you look around you, you would think: everybody – and when it comes to young adults 18–29 years old, that’s almost true. 96% of people that age have a cell phone. And they use it mainly to send text messages – over 100 texts a day on average, and 3,200 texts a month! Other adults send only half as many texts. And what about teens? Well, three-fourths of teens between 12 and 17 own cell phones and they text even more than young adults. That is: girls do. Girls send around 3,952 text messages a month. Boys, interestingly, only type 2,815 text messages a month. Still a lot, but far less than girls. In fact, texting and taking pictures are the most common ways that teens and young adults in the U.S.A. use their cell phones. What teens don’t do so much on their phones is... talk. Oh, they do it sometimes, but they much prefer to send dozens of super fast texts every day. This way, they have virtual conversations full of abbreviations like LMK (Let Me Know), LOL (Laugh Out Loud) and BRB (Be Right Back). There’s even an abbreviation for “parent over my shoulder” (POMS), to warn others that parents may be following the conversation! So abbreviations aren’t just for speed, but also for keeping virtual conversations private. (Naar: https://innovativepublichealth.org/blog/texting-teens/)

Maak de oefening.