The line graph compares the percentage of methods used to communicate with each other by youngsters living in the same state in America whose age ranges from 12 to 19 years of age. Generally, most forms of communication had been seen to experience the tendency to have increased, while the percentage of choosing email to was gradually decreasing. Particularly, texting was the most utilised method of communication compared to others; however, the trend of it had been followed closely behind by real-time conversation and calling via phones.
In November 2006, the proportion of young people opting for messaging was more than a fifth which had had a swift growth in one year before it stabilised at around under 40 percent. In 2008, the figure of teenagers prefer face-to-face engagement had significantly increased by nearly one tenth having become the most popular means of communication chosen by them. By contrast, there had been a minority of youngsters using email as a type of communication before it contended with declining to 10 percent of adolescents choosing emailing in 2009.
Nearly one-third teenagers living in one state located in the US had chosen to have a direct meeting to chat with their peers before experiencing an increase to 40 percent in 2007. After then, the proportion of teenagers surprisingly dropped to three tenths in 2008 which was lower than its starting level in 2006. It then processed to rise slightly, having approached around 35 percent of youngsters who used this way of communication. Similarly, long distance calls had steadily grown from approximately 33 percent to 40 percent in the 3-year period.