Hello friend, this is an episode of Note to Self, but from when we used to be called New Text City.

Same good content, just the old name. Enjoy.

From WNYC, this is New Text City, where digital gets personal.

Hello, this is Grace from Westchester.

I'm a 16 year old girl.

I have an iPhone 4, and I'm going to record my activities on it for the next few days.

I'm a new summer Odie. You've just met 16 year old Grace and her phone.

And I've been wanting to understand more about how teenagers use their phones.

What they're actually doing when we just see the tops of their heads.

Warm and lovely Grace was happy to explain.

So it's lunch. I've texted a bunch. Also, I went on Instagram before Jen.

My friends were like, so can we leave?

She's got kind of a fast, tangential way of talking, but stick with her.

I'll go over who I texted. Obviously, I'm not going to name names, but I can expand on what a teenage text is about.

There's like some group chat drama.

Yeah, group chat drama, meaning awkward social situations on a texting app.

Yes, they're friends. It's all of us, but we don't know if we necessarily wanted them in the group chat or...

Full confession. I have a seven year old and a four year old.

I'm kind of scared of teenagers. So this was also parental research.

Yes, so let me take some acute selfies the next morning. Those were snapchats.

And yeah, this is just one teenager's perspective.

Sorry, sorry.

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