Posts tagged as Texting
When Not To Text
Time wonders: Is it okay to text while eating?
But maybe they should be asking a different question.
Men hv gotten dumber since smartphone introduction. One resto owner says he now has mats under toilets 4 men who miss the bowl while txtingless than a minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® 
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Britons Using Any Pretext To Stab Each Other
"A MAN who stabbed his friend to death in a row over a mis-spelt text message has been convicted of manslaughter." Yes, what a world, etc., but it's even stranger when you consider this: "Brook told the police he sent Mr Witkowski a text containing the word 'nutter', but, because of his predictive text, it came out as “mutter”. Mr Witkowski took offence and after the pair exchanged a series of increasingly abusive and angry text messages, he went round to Brook’s flat."
Texting Will Trick Women Into Letting You Do Sex To Them
Hey, fellas: Want to do sex to that special—or simply just available—lady in your life? Text her! "Nearly 40 percent of women say that social-networking media, such as text-messaging and Facebook, are causing them to jump into the sack faster with partners than they would have in the past, according to a poll by Men's Fitness and Shape magazines." Some clinical psychologist suggests that the false sense of intimacy texting provides will get you over the hump (heh), as the lady in question will think that "you've actually been together for a longer amount of time, so it's actually OK to have sex quicker. You may have gone out once or twice, but since there's been so much exchange, either in texting or Facebook, it feels longer. It actually feels like its been longer than just two dates." What a marvelous age in which we live!
Kids Text A Lot
"According to a new Nielsen study examining teenage mobile-phone usage around the world, American teens text more than six times an hour while they are awake."
Sleep Is For The Weak (Or At Least The Women Who Don't Have PDAs)
An Oxygen survey of women aged 18 to 34 found that some 37% of them have fallen asleep while clutching a PDA, while 26% of them will wake up from a dead slumber and stagger zombie-like to wherever their phone might be (or roll over) in order to read their text messages. Having engaged in both of these behaviors as recently as (cough) eight-ish hours ago, I wonder if there's a correlative aspect between them, thanks to the light-emitting nature of the devices, which contributes to fitful sleep. I also wonder if there is a chunk of the ladies who admit to fall asleep holding their PDA who actually mean to do so, what with ebook readers on these devices being so handy? OK OK this reads like I'm trying to rationalize unhealthy behaviors that tip over into low-grade technology addictions and maybe I am. Or maybe I just am trying to cover up the real reason for this behavior, which is presented after the jump! READ MORE
[Insert New Techonology Here] Is Destroying [Insert Generation Younger Than Your Own]
"We live in a culture where young people-outfitted with iPhone and laptop and devoting hours every evening from age 10 onward to messaging of one kind and another-are ever less likely to develop the 'silent fluency' that comes from face-to-face interaction. It is a skill that we all must learn, in actual social settings, from people (often older) who are adept in the idiom. As text-centered messaging increases, such occasions diminish. The digital natives improve their adroitness at the keyboard, but when it comes to their capacity to 'read' the behavior of others, they are all thumbs." READ MORE
Toward A More Detailed Work-Safety Warning
The Wall Street Journal has another "Oh no, people need to learn text/Internet acronyms" piece today, which opens with the following anecdote: READ MORE
I don't even know anymore.
In the service of parents everywhere, Fox Atlanta today released a list of text acronyms parents should know. As much as we applaud their commitment to child safety and paternal supervision, many items on the list are inaccurate or flat-out wrong. Here are the actual translations. Print them out and keep them by the computer; they're bound to come in handy. READ MORE
How Not To Emote Upon Killing A Cop While Driving Drunk
Here is a terrible story from Russia about a woman who killed a traffic cop while driving drunk. After striking the officer with her Toyota, the 22-year-old woman pulled over to text her boyfriend. The message? READ MORE
