## Step 2 - Reading

Texting teens

You are going to read a text about teens and phones.
Je gaat een tekst lezen over tieners en telefoons.

- Read the text.
  Lees de tekst.
- While reading, think about the following question:
  Denk tijdens het lezen na over de volgende vraag:
  - Deze tekst gaat onder andere over het appgedrag van ouderen en jongeren. Is de conclusie hetzelfde als in de luistertekst van daarnet 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 texts every day. It’s a lot faster than phoning. 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/)

Do the exercise.
Maak de oefening.