For everyone annoyed by texting addiction...

[scipper77]

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On yesterdays news.

CNN) -- All that texting and social networking by teenagers could come back to byte them.

A new study by the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine links poor health behaviors -- including smoking, drinking and sexual activity -- to hyper-texting and hyper-networking.

The study defines hyper-texting as sending more than 120 messages a day. Hyper-networking is spending more than three hours per school day on social network sites like Facebook, it said.

"The startling results of this study suggest that when left unchecked texting and other widely popular methods of staying connected can have dangerous health effects on teenagers," said Scott Frank, lead researcher on the study. "This should be a wake-up call for parents to not only help their children stay safe by not texting and driving, but by discouraging excessive use of the cell phone or social websites in general."

Hyper-texting was reported by nearly 20 percent of the Midwestern teens surveyed, according to the study.

According to the study, teens who are hyper-texters are:

-- two times more likely to have tried alcohol

-- nearly three-and-a-half times more likely to have had sex

-- 40 percent more likely to have tried cigarettes

-- 41 percent more likely to have used illicit drugs

-- 43 percent more likely to be binge drinkers

-- 55 percent more likely to have been in a physical fight

-- 90 percent more likely to report four or more sexual partners

I hate studies like this. All it does is show that kids with less self control are more likely to do bad things. The cause and effect aspect is implied.

Another study that bothers me is that children who watch more tv are more likely to end up with A.D.D. I always thought that children with A.D.D were more likely to veg out in front of the t.v. My opinion (as a person with personal experience with A.D.D.) is that it is near impossible to get A.D.D. kids to focus on anything constructive for an appreciable amount of time. That's why even at 2 or 3 years of age they wind up watching more t.v.

OK off my soap box

 

[Expidia]

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get used to it grandpas! its the 21st century, yeah i agree its dumb... suck it up, its a text message.

Hahaha, that's exactly what I was thinking when I started reading this thread

Not everyone can text and take their teeth out of the jar at the same time . . . . That's called multi tasking.

If an idiot walks across the street face buried in their blackeberries, oh well, that's called thinning the heard

The ones I hate are the "push to talk" crowd. Especially when I get to enjoy both sides of their conversations, while they sit next to me in a bar or restaurant. But I blame that on the restaurant owners or managers as they should go over to them and ask them to take their conversations out side and stand with the other outcasts . . . the smokers!

 

[DJ]

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I probably send five texts per week.

There are some messages that I simply do not want to put into an email. For convenience and security sakes. Email leaves a trace, texting does not, just like a conversation. As I understand it.

It is a tool. Any tool can be abused.

I probably send 400 emails/week based on twice that incoming. That again, is a tool. It is an effective way of communicating without hassling someone, at the wrong time, with a phone call. Plus, there is a record.

 

[metalwizard]

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My hearing isn't the best. I prefer a text message I can always read what you have to say. it's great to get things like numbers addresses etc. also where I work is nosiey so text messages are great there.. especially if it is a quick thing..

Like "how about pizza for dinner tonight?" "sure" faster than a phone call. no mistakes. I don;t have to stop whatI am doing and I can take care of it when I have the time.

Now kids.. that's different we have 7 between us. the teens are bad. My wifes middle daughter. had some 5000 text messages SENT one month... we figured it out. she texted every 10 mins while she was awake for the month... we put an end to that really quick. LOL

 

[QC]

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Anybody else chuckling at the irony of a bunch of internet forum addicts ranting about texting addiction? Just sayin' . . .

 

[scipper77]

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Anybody else chuckling at the irony of a bunch of internet forum addicts ranting about texting addiction? Just sayin' . . .

lol....

My daughter did just under 20000 texts one month. That was sent and received. I confiscated her phone when she got in trouble and the thing went off every 20 seconds or so. This is all water under the bridge at this point but with multitasking like that, look out world. She may just go pretty far.

 

[Deadwood]

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Anybody else chuckling at the irony of a bunch of internet forum addicts ranting about texting addiction? Just sayin' . . .

MY fingers are yucking it up with ya.

 

[ezmobee]

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I can quit whenever I want.

 

[bassman284]

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Anybody else chuckling at the irony of a bunch of internet forum addicts ranting about texting addiction? Just sayin' . . .

Hey! The int3rwebz is serious bizness.

 

[jaxnjil]

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I probably send five texts per week.

There are some messages that I simply do not want to put into an email. For convenience and security sakes. Email leaves a trace, texting does not, just like a conversation. As I understand it.

i'm not i understand your comment.....the part about leaving a trace. my son had save some and used them as evidence in court

my sons x has been going back and forth with their daughter. letting him see her when she gets her own way then hiding the baby and not when she was unhappy about something.

when he finally got fed up and went to court one of the only things he had in his favor was the wacky texts, and threating texts she sent him.

 

[Limited-Time]

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I was in the anti-texting crowd until about a year ago. Then I found the use and need for it. It's the moderation issue all over again. And FWIW I'm no spring chicken............in fact I am almost as old as QC.....

 

[QC]

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My immediate family and some friends communicate almost entirely by text . . . I hook up my Smart Phone to my laptop and text from my keyboard. Alright, I admit it. There, done. So, am I more innovative than my friend LT there at the same flippin' age?

 

[LadyFish]

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Oh I have an iphone and text all the time. I reply to emails, google stuff, ban iboats members, etc. but if I get a text when I'm driving I won't even look at the phone.

QC, you'll have to let me know how you hook up to your keyboard to text on your phone.

 

[jaxnjil]

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Anybody else chuckling at the irony of a bunch of internet forum addicts ranting about texting addiction? Just sayin' . . .

QC; this is about my first post in this thread.

you speak of irony. splan to me this. no one else has yet.

you call someone but don't talk. you type a message. they answer but don't talk. they type a message.

now you call someone but don't type. you talk to the phone and it converts your speech to a text.

wouldn't it have been just as easy to have called and talked in the first place. i see the irony that now your back to talking.

kinda like calling someone and telling them your sending a e-mail

i dont do many e-mails either.

 

[Mark42]

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Bought myself an iPhone, my daughter an iPod, and my son an iBook.

My wife got jealous, so I got her an iRon.

 

[QC]

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you call someone but don't talk. you type a message. they answer but don't talk. they type a message.

This way I can tell my kid he can't have the car, allow him one yabut, tell him he must've not heard me (read me) properly, all while I'm on a teleconference, or at lunch with clients, or after landing and taxiing without bothering another passenger. . .

 

[cribber]

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I'm a project manager and need to carry on multiple conversations thru various mediums. I can be on a conference call watching a vendor demo while IMing with others about the validity of the presentation and texting with the Mrs what's for dinner and checking email for my reservation confirmation for my next flight home. I'm a card carrying member of the Boomer generation and recently was recruited into AARP. Man please... I love technology!!!

 

[thefairlaneman]

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Just today a woman beside me was texting at a stop light. Then the light turned green and she was still texting as she slowly started to go forward . She reached a speed of about 25 mph with cars backing up behind her as she WAS STILL TEXTING and then about 1/4 mile more and she suddenly stops with NO turn signal to turn left and STILL TEXTING.... I wish I would have been in front of her and she would have STOPPED TEXTING as she tried to avoid hitting me AFTER I SLAMMED ON BRAKES.. Let her see what can happen to people who text and try to drive

 

[gonefishie]

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My immediate family and some friends communicate almost entirely by text . . . I hook up my Smart Phone to my laptop and text from my keyboard. Alright, I admit it. There, done. So, am I more innovative than my friend LT there at the same flippin' age?

Most emails allow you to send text right from the email app.

 

[gonefishie]

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Bought myself an iPhone, my daughter an iPod, and my son an iBook.

My wife got jealous, so I got her an iRon.

The she gave you a Black i.