If you thought that young Americans in the 18-24 age grouping like to text, a better description may be love to text.

New data is out from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, showing that 95 percent of young adults engage the texting option on their cell phones. On a typical day, they send and get in return nearly 110 texts a day, while the median user reaches 40 a day. In terms of the median for all cell phone users, the figure is 10 a day.

Digging further down into the research, one in 10 younger adults reports they exchange more than 200 messages a day.

Some other data from the survey shows:

• Eighty-three percent of American adults own cell phones and nearly three quarters of them (73 percent) send and get text messages;
• Thirty-one percent indicate they prefer texts to chatting on the phone, while 53 percent note their preference is a voice call over a text message;
• Fourteen percent of those surveyed indicate the contact method they prefer is dependent upon the situation;
• If a young adult is exchanging an average of 109.5 messages daily, that comes out to greater than 3,200 texts monthly.

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So what’s it all about this weired title for my post, you may be thinking, well it’s a simple title for what I’ve been up to lately.

First of all many may know that I frequent FaceBook, not as much I would like to or used to but I still visit when I can and I do like to use my mobile phone for Tweeting over at Twitter.

So the other day I decided to change the tariff on my Orange phone, the network not the colour, to the Dolphin tariff, great I thought 300 free texts a month, that will save me a bit tweeting, well not exactly, I can text for free, but not to Twitter, I still get charged 20p to tweet with my mobile, shame that!

But I do have access to FaceBook, Bebo, MySpace and Twitter for free via my phones WAP, which I suppose does help, but it’s so annoying tweeting without predictive text, it’s like going back to the dark ages, pressing one key several times to get the desired letter!

So then I decided to stop by Facebook and use their mobile phone option, so I can update my facebook via my phone, no! Facebook will not let you use an Orange phone, what a complete pain in the bum!!!

What next, ah ha ping.fm, I’ll give that ago, so I did!  Awesome no charge!!!!!