Anyone with teens, having seen a teen, or have heard of this peculiar species, this should come as no surprise.

But they text message a lot.

How much? According to the Pew Center's Internet and American Life Project, about 3,330 times a month. That breaks down to 50 times a day.

That's on the low side compared to what the Nielsen Company uncovered. They found the averge 13-to-17-year-old sends and receives 100 a day.

Maybe Pew didn't count how many times kids text during dinner.

Remember the end of the 1970s show, "The Waltons?" All the family members will holler out "good night" to everyone? If that was today, first of all, they all wouldn't be at home. But if they were and doing the same thing, all you would hear would be text-messaging alarms going off like a symphony.

Adult texting is up too, but we're way behind the kids. Nielsen said its survey showed that adults ages 45 to 54 sent and received 323 texts a month. That's what, about 10 a day? That was up though 75 percent from the same time from a year ago.

The survey said 72 percent of adults text, up from 65 percent in September 2009, and 58 percent from December 2007.

Everyday You can see the telephones in the people and how this is a really necesary in the actual society