How many text messages are too many?

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Teens are texting too much. They send over 100 text messages a day. This is not good for them.

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Ways to prevent to many text messages!

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Set time limitations which means limiting your texting.

How many text messages are too many?

Another way to solve too much texting

Make sure your not texting just because your bored.

Argument: 100 plus text messages are too many!

Claim #1:Survey says teens send 100-plus texts a day.

Claim #2:One of three teenagers send more than 100 text messages a day.

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Claim #3:Teens (13-17) are averaging roughly 3,417 text messages per month. That's 41,652 texts messages per year.

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Excessive use of texting are linked to risky behavior in teens.

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Problems with Teens Texting too much

Driving Danger

While texting isn't exactly an extreme sport, it doesn't mean a teen can text night and day without any physical effects. Too much texting can actually lead to inflammation or irritation of a tendon (or tendinitis), according to the Journal of Family Practice. Similar to typing on a computer or completing the same motion over and over, tendinitis can cause pain, aching and throbbing in the wrist and in the thumb as a result of your teen's continuous without pause or interruption texting.

Risk Behavior:

Texting while driving is seriously dangerous behavior. According to the Federal Communications Commission, 11 percent of drivers who were in a car accident admitted to be sending or receiving a text message when the accident occurred. Texting while driving takes your teen's eyes and her concentration off of the road, so she's less alert and slower to react. It's simply unacceptable behavior, and it's especially a problem for new drivers who should give their full attention to the road -- not to a text message.

Counterclaim: There is no such thing as too much text messages. They will all add up at the end of the month as a larger total.

Excessive texting is linked to risky behavior, but it might also be the other way around. Regardless, a 2010 study completed by the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine found that too much texting was a predictor of risky behavior like substance abuse, smoking and multiple sex partners. In fact, teens who "hypertext" -- send more than 120 text messages per day -- were 43 percent more likely to be binge drinkers, 55 percent more likely to get in a physical fight, and 93 percent more likely to report four or more sexual partners.

School Distraction

When you send your teen to school in the morning, you probably hope that she makes the most of the opportunity to learn. Unfortunately, with a cell phone attached to their hand, texting could prove to be too much of an educational distraction. Even if your teen isn't sending the messages, she could be receiving them, breaking their concentration in school, and distracting them while they are trying to do homework. Even if your teen's school forbids texting in class, teens often find covert methods to send messages.