Hey everybody, this week I am trying to follow my own podcast advice and actually take a real vacation.

No checking email or Twitter or reading 50 online articles a day.

I'm gonna try and make some space for deeper thinking. I think it's gonna be good for both of us.

Okay, so this is an encore episode of a show from earlier this year.

It's called Nine Things We Learned About Fones From A Teenager.

It was one of our most popular episodes. You're gonna hear why if you haven't heard it before.

Enjoy! Meet Grace!

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 Manou Samarote. 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 are 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 gonna 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.

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