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The Seeing Eye People [VIDEO]

Troy Selfridge — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:46:11 +0000

Have you ever had trouble texting and walking? I don’t know about you, but when I text and walk I always think I’m going to run into something. In this video, volunteers in New York City put on vests and leashes and walk around with people texting and holding onto the leash behind them. I [...]

'Sleep Texting' Is Now a Thing Among Teenagers

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:58:22 +0000

Being a teenager is a perilous time in one’s life as a not-quite fully developed brain will cause the teen to make all kinds of questionable decisions. Now thanks to a new phenomenon called sleep-texting, the teenager can even make these bad decisions while they are catching z’s. According to a study by Elizabeth Dowdell, a professor at Villanova University, more and [...]

Pilot Almost Causes Devastating Crash After Texting While Flying

Don Deane — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:54:22 +0000

Texting while driving isn’t the only way to endanger your life with a smartphone. It turns out that texting while flying is spectacularly dangerous, too. On May 27 of last year, the pilot of Jetstar Flight JQ57 from Australia to Singapore became so distracted by incoming text messages that he nearly caused a crash after [...]

Here's What Texting While Almost Walking Into A Bear Looks Like [VIDEO]

John Riggs — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:49:59 +0000

Yet, another reason why I don’t walk and text at the same time. Can you imagine this chump? Just walking along thumb-deep in his smart phone. Too bad it wasn’t smart enough to tell him there was a bear within proximity. They talk to the guy, he said, “I wanted to see what was going [...]

Average Texter Sends or Receives 41.5 Messages a Day — Survey of the Day

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:00:54 +0000

According to a survey of 2,227 adults by the Pew Research Center, the average text message user sends or receives an average of 41.5 messages a day.

How much someone texts is not surprisingly tied to how old they are. Those in the 18-to-29 age group send or receive an average of 87.7 texts a day, whereas that total is only 4.7 for those in the 65-and-over group.

How Teachers Know You're Texting In Class [PHOTO]

John Riggs — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:05:21 +0000

Since teachers used to be students themselves, you’re not going to fool them with anything as they’ve seen it all before and probably have done it once or twice themselves. This was posted in a classroom. izismile

Theater Turns Rant-Filled Voicemail Into Anti-Texting PSA [NSFW VIDEO]

John Riggs — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:26:14 +0000

We've all been there before: An otherwise pleasant trip to the movies turns sour when a fellow patron decides to whip out their phone and start texting while the movie is still playing.

Such was the case during a recent screening at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas, which prompted employees to kick one text-happy woman out of their theater.