Kids Media Consumption / Hyper-Texting Teens

smartphones: Our national obsessin: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/10/18/smartphone.everywhere/index.html

Teens, Cell Phones and TextingApril 20, 2010
Summary of Findings: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1572/teens-cell-phones-text-messages
- Chapter Four: How parents and schools regulate teens’ mobile phones http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones/Chapter-4/Parents-and-limits-on-cell-phone-use.aspx

Why teens text

http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones/Chapter-2/Why-teens-text.aspx

Texting: The New Way for Kids to Be Rude

http://www.empoweringparents.com/My-Teen-is-Addicted-to-Texting.php#

Many kids will react negatively when you start to set limits on their texting or cell phone activities, but if you stick with the plan, they will eventually respond and comply with your family’s rules.

( asr: a) this is great supporting point for our product

b) other point is it is easy to set Limits from early age say - 1 st grade for TV , 5 th grade for Texting etc.. this is what our product intend to do )

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features: see your friends Limits and how much they are using it.

b) offer group Texting for kids/parents ( see groupme using Tillo )

c) offer MATH/Chess etc.. positive one to get more credits

d) offer on simple phones this feature any textable phone ( like GroupMe , not only on iphone/android )

f) kids and parents can have each separate profile . Each kid limit will work on the behaviour of the other kids to Aceept

g) show charts on google charts , FB charts , on Iphone/android

h) see $5/month ATT is too much , use this as point .. search more available options

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http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2030236,00.html#ixzz14zUZVSPf

A Kaiser Family Foundation study found that

1) about half of children ages 8 to 18 send text messages on a cell phone in a typical day. The texters estimated they average 118 texts per day. That study also found that only 14% of kids said their parents set rules limiting texting.
( asr: 118 / 15 wakeup hours => 8 txt/hour => 1 Txt every 8 minutes )

Other studies have tied teen texting to risky or lewd behavior. A Pew Research Center study found that

2) about one-third of 16- and 17-year-olds send texts while driving. ( 33% drive Texting )

- And an Associated Press-MTV poll found that about one-quarter of teenagers have "sexted" — shared sexually explicit photos, videos and chat by cell phone or online. ( 25% )

3) The study was done at 20 public high schools in the Cleveland area last year, and is based on confidential paper surveys of more than 4,200 students.

a) It found that about one in five students were hyper-texters ( 1/5 => 20% ) ( 120 txt/day )

b) and about one in nine are hyper-networkers — those who spend three or more hours a day on Facebook and other social networking websites. ( 1/9 => 11%)

c) About one in 25 fall into both categories.

"This study demonstrates that it's a legitimate question to explore," said Douglas Gentile, who runs the Media Research Lab at Iowa State University.

The study found those who text at least 120 times a day are nearly three-and-a-half times more likely to have had sex than their peers who don't text that mu

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Services to LIMIT texting

1) AT&T Smart Limits for Wireless – Limit your child’s calling and texting habit
http://www.slashgear.com/att-smart-limits-for-wireless-limit-your-childs-calling-and-texting-habits-047163/
The service works with any existing (non-TDMA) phone and will cost $4.99 per month, per phone.
( asr: wow this is too expensive , this should be Free , think startup idea )