Texting is the most common use of communication in the teenage and youth realm. A study showed the correlations between compulsive texting and problems in school.

Today, texting is the most dominant way people communicate with each other. Effects on this is a lack of sleep and snapping at people when interrupted.

 Texting is more than a distraction according to teenage girls.  It lowers their performance in their academics.

 Mckinley male students state their thoughts on compulsive texting

 “It depends,” freshman Benny Trieu said. “If you have free time in class, it’s okay. Compulsive texting during lectures, however, are bad,” Trieu said. 

 “It doesn’t really matter,” freshman Darius Nakao said. “Texting is only bad if you’re doing it during class,” Nakao said.

According to the study, published online on Oct. 5 in the “Psychology of Popular Media Culture,” out of 403 participants in the study, 47 states that they were “non-texters” leaving the remaining 356 students.  The study showed that about 12 percent of compulsive texters were girls and three percent were boys.  

 “It may not be much of a problem for us, but for the girls it may be,” freshman Alazay Miller said.