OMG! As if you needed a study to know this:

Among teenagers, cell phone texting is now clearly, officially, poll-proven, like the most preferred method of electronic communication among friends, with talking on the phone a close second.

This 4-1-1 (bit of information) comes from a report, “Teens and Mobile Phones,” released Tuesday by the Washington-based Pew Research Center’s Pew Internet & American Life Project.