Texting overtakes phone calls

Over on our Facebook page, we asked people if they are texting more - and if so, why:

• Janet Mary Davies-Murs: 'I text a lot and use many more than 200 per month! Mine mainly sent to my two grown up daughters and friends'

• Libby Field: 'I have a lot of friends up North and in Europe, so it is cheaper to text then phoning.'
• Paula Blackburn: 'What's worse is when you're on a night out with your friends and they're all on facebook and checking their phones... cant stand that.'

• The average Briton now sends 200 texts a month.
• Text messaging has overtaken speaking on a mobile phone and face-to-face contact.
• More than half (58%) of UK adults use text messages at least once a day.

• This is more than the figure for face-to-face contact (49%), speaking on a mobile phone (47%) and social networking (33%).
  
• Text messaging used by 90% of 16 to 24-year-olds to communicate at least once a day with friends and family.

• This is followed by social networking (74%), mobile phone calls (67%) and face-to-face contact (63%).
• The time spent on a mobile phone is down for the first time, from 125 billion minutes in 2010 to 124 billion last year, while calls made on landlines continued to drop by 10%.

Text messaging is now the most popular form of daily communication between British adults, new figures show.

After years of increased use, the amount of time British adults spend speaking on a mobile phone has dropped for the first time.

But the average Briton now sends 200 texts a month, Ofcom's Communications Market Report found, more than double the figure of four years ago.