Related to several topics from the censorship / online speech / internet addiction unit...
Sex, drugs more common in hyper-texting teens
By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer – Tue Nov 9, 4:09 am ET
ATLANTA – Teens who text 120 times a day or more — and there seems to be a lot of them — are more likely to have had sex or used alcohol and drugs than kids who don't send as many messages, according to provocative new research.
The study's authors aren't suggesting that "hyper-texting" leads to sex, drinking or drugs, but say it's startling to see an apparent link between excessive messaging and that kind of risky behavior.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101109/ap_on_he_me/us_med_teens_texting
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I get the feeling a lot of people aren't going to notice the difference between correlation and causation...
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