Text messaging. It's taken over our lives, I can't remember a day when I didn't send/receive a text message. I'm not upset about this, I love to text and receive texts, it's so easy!
I just read, on the Nielson Blog, that kids ages 13-17 send/receive more than 3,300 texts per month, now, I'm all for texting, but that's crazy. It scares me because often times, when I am talking to a high school student, which I do often for my job, they have a hard time looking me in the eye or, even worse, a hard time having a two minute convo with me without checking a text message half way through.
So, here it is, I don't really care how much anyone texts, I love it, I text all the time. But, I do care if you can't have a conversation with a real, live person because you're not used to or comfortable with face-to-face interaction. Also, if you're so obsessed with texting that you can't go out to dinner or coffee with someone without checking your texts every 5 minuets, you might have a problem. Try putting the phone down, for a whole day and see how you feel.
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