Texting teens could cost parents everything

Myself I've never seen the fascination in "texting" constantly.

I agree it sometimes has an advantage like when my wife is on her way home from work and wants to know what we need from the grocery store. This makes sense I send her a list of the items and she doesn't have to remember them or write them down.

But otherwise I don't get texting. To me its a step backwards on the communications evolutionary scale. Your not sure if the info you imparted was received and you must wait for a reply and if the reply doesn't come immediately you don't know if its because they didn't receive the info or don't know the answer or if you dropped service and so on. But if I actually use the phone and have a voice converstaion I can immediately know all of the above and its much faster.

So I rarely text and I would never do so while driving it just seems stupid. But I see nothing wrong with "Hands Free" cell phone use being its no different from talking to a passenger in the car. But driving while holding a cell phone constantly to your ear is just dumb. Especially when "Hands Free "options are so cheap now.

But otherwise I don't get texting. To me its a step backwards on the communications evolutionary scale.

The distinction is, you actually thought about it. That's your problem, you let brains enter into it. You should just join the mindless herd of millions on mobile devices all starring at each other on FaceBook and texting in between vanity updates.

Actually I get the idea of Facebook being my whole family keeps in touch using it by sharing pics of the kids activities and videos and such. They use it to plan family outings and vacations. Its really handy for that. I also have many friends and family who use Facebook for Business They are writers and musicians and such. Facebook is Godsend for those types of independent producers for getting the word out about their wares.

What I can't understand is using your cellphone to text someone else on a cellphone. Just for a conversation.

To me its like riding your bicycle and pulling your car behind you. Its going backwards in ease of use and speed.

I use texting for the same purpose. Texting “Pls get ice, wine, milk.” is much quicker than phoning my husband, leaving a message on his voice mail, having him call back because he didn’t listen to the voice mail, getting the message that he called back, calling him back again ...

And that’s not even getting into the disastrous potential when children get involved in the exchange of messages! “Daddy called, he said he’s going to go ... somewhere ... and then he’ll get ... a grenade?”

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