30% of teens break up via text

Pew found 31 per cent of teens had sent flirtatious messages, 10 per cent had sent photos as part of flirting and seven percent had made a video for potential partner. Of these daters, only 8 percent of them met their partner online, meaning Catfish: The TV Show is basically a lie.

1When it comes to meeting romantic partners, most teens do this offline.

Teens generally frown upon splitting up via text message, but that doesn’t mean they don’t do it. About as many teens with relationship experience have broken up with someone via text (27%) as they have by phone (29%).

One in 10 teens reported accessing, impersonating or tampering with a partner’s account. Half of teens (50%) say they have friended someone on Facebook or another social media site as a way to show romantic interest, while 47% have expressed attraction by liking, commenting on or interacting with that person on social media.

When playing coy with a crush, however, half of USA teens surveyed said they had flirted, “friended” or “liked” someone on social media.

And as they refine their real-life and online social etiquette, a few revert to more conflict-avoidant methods: 6% have broken up with someone by changing their Facebook “relationship status” (presumably to “single”), 4% have posted a status update indicating the breakup, and 2% have simply posted an image (of what, who knows).

And 15 per cent of teen daters report that a current or former partner spread rumors about them using digital platforms. But 27% of teens say social media makes them feel jealous or unsure about their relationship, with 7% saying they feel this way “a lot”.

Teens rated the in-person break up as the best way to end a relationship, followed by a phone call. About six-in-ten teens with relationship experience (62%) have broken up with someone in person, and 47% have been broken up with through an in-person discussion.

Among boys, 16 per cent took this step, the study said.

Pew also found that 85% of romantically involved adolescents expect to hear from their significant other “at least once a day, if not more often”.

Thirty-five per cent of all teen girls said they had blocked or unfriended someone who was flirting in a way that made them uncomfortable.