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Having to travel on the tube everyday with teenagers at either side of you, you notice that as soon as you come to a station that is over ground you are inundated with the “1 message received” sound by every teenage mobile phone user around you. Which brought me to the question “Why has this become such a phenomena between teenagers? Text messaging has changed how teenagers use their mobile phones to communicate and co-ordinate their lives. Text messaging has provided a fun, and more convenient way for today’s youth to communicate with one another. They even use text messaging to plan telephone calls. But while text messaging is on the increase, less is known about why teenagers have adopted it. Why has text messaging become such an important part of their lives and how it has become second nature to them? Xerox an American research company believes that understanding why and how the teenagers of today use text messaging to communicate will help predict what technology will be required by the adults of tomorrow. Where is technology leading us? We w