I am a teenager with my phone stuck to my fingers, I will admit I am addicted to texting. It is a Terrible thing! beside the fact when i get together with friends, it is not like the good old times spending time with your friends. Every person is talking to five other people we just happen to be sitting in the same room. It is very sad.
I think the bigger problem is communication. We learn to be open and talk threw texting, but you loose your ability to talk normally to people because texting makes it so much easier. as rabbi wallerstein sais “It is so hard on dates, because they have such a hard time talking, but if you give each of them a phone they can have a 8 hour conversation”
There really is no answer to texting but it is really a terrible thing and try to minimize it, but it is not really working that well