25 percent text their lovers 10+ times a day

Orlin Wagner / AP file

By Suzanne Choney

Do you text your significant other once a day? Twice? Three times? More? If you can't resist the urge, you're in good company: 58 percent of users of one mobile app say they text their sweeties "at least" three times a day, and 25 percent say they do so 10 or more times daily.

Live Poll

Would you break up with someone via text message?

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  1. No, it's totally rude and cold.

  86%

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  2. Yes, it's less painful -- for me.

  7%

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  3. Maybe, if I were afraid of the person -- and his or her mother.

  7%

VoteTotal Votes: 152

That's the result of a very informal poll of 2,500 users of one mobile shopping app, CheckPoints. Admittedly, those who are using the app are likely more mobile-centric than many of us.

On the darker side of texting and love, more than 40 percent of those polled said they've deleted a text message that they "didn't want their significant other to read." And trust only goes so far: 42 percent admitted they have checked their significant other's phone for "inappropriate messages."

CheckPoints also points to another poll, from Recombu.com, a British website that cover mobile phone information, about our growing dependency on text messaging, for news ? good or bad. According to a poll it did last month, 1 in 5 Americans have broken up via text message (that's 10 percent more than UK mobile users).

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Source: http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/13/10398860-25-percent-text-their-lovers-10-times-a-day

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