The findings of a new research have suggested that teenagers who indulge in sending a lot of text messages to friends have a much higher chance of being involved in teenage sex, drugs and even alcohol as compared to children who don't send as many messages.

The research was conducted through a survey involving 4,200 students at 20 public high schools in the Cleveland area which were done at a highly confidential basis. As a part of the survey the teenagers were asked to make an estimate of the number of text messages that they sent everyday.

The participants were also asked to inform about the time that they spent on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter along with other activities in which they are involved.

The term `hypertexting' was assigned to a person when he or she was sending more than 120 text messages on a school day, by the researchers from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. They also discovered that almost 19.8 percent of the participants were in this category of hypertexting.