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New Modern Malady: Texting While Parenting

It's one plausible explanation for the spike in injuries to little kids

(Newser) - Parents of young kids, keep your phones in your pocket while at the playground: The Wall Street Journal today looks at the maybe-problem of "texting while parenting." Skeptics will note that the evidence is mostly anecdotal, but they'll have to explain a strange coincidence of stats: The...

Designated Driver, Make Room for 'Designated Texter'

Survey on teen safety coins a phrase

(Newser) - The bad news from a new State Farm survey is that a third of teen drivers admit to sending or reading texts while driving. The good news is that teens in general seem to have a greater awareness of the danger, with four of five saying they had scolded a...

Teen Wins Back-to-Back Speed-Texting Titles

'America's fastest texter' takes home $50K

(Newser) - Austin Wierschke and his furiously fast thumbs have won the National Texting Competition for the second year running. The 17-year-old from Wisconsin will take home $50,000 in prize money after out-texting ten rivals at the competition in New York City's Times Square, reports AP . "It feels incredible,...

Olympics to Fans: Please Stop Tweeting

Overwhelmed networks causing problems with TV coverage

(Newser) - Excited Olympics attendees have been overwhelming mobile networks, and now the International Olympic Committee is urging spectators to cool it with the texting and tweeting. "Of course, if you want to send something, we are not going to say 'you can't do it', and we would certainly...

New Issue for Facebook: Young Kids Not Interested?

Site called 'mom thing' by some as they turn to Twitter, Tumblr

(Newser) - Sure, it's got 900 million users—but there's a key demographic that may be slipping away from Facebook's grasp. Young teens tell the Los Angeles Times that the social network no longer boasts much of a coolness factor; indeed, it may have become a "mom thing"...

New Jersey Town's Cops Ticket Texting Pedestrians

'Dangerous walkers' fined $85 in Fort Lee

(Newser) - Take your fingers off your cell phone, and nobody gets hurt. That could be a warning from one New Jersey town's cops, who are handing out $85 jaywalking tickets to pedestrians who text while they walk—117 so far. "It’s a big distraction. Pedestrians aren’t watching...

Sexting Solution? App Kills Image After 10 Seconds

Snapchat might help prevent post-text embarrassment

(Newser) - Good news for naked celebrities: A new app lets people send sexts with less chance they'll leak online. Snapchat allows users to set potentially embarrassing photo messages to delete themselves within seconds. It even warns senders when a recipient tries to take a screenshot of a message, the website...

Texting at Movies? Probably Just a Matter of Time

This tide seems impossible to stop: Patrick Goldstein

(Newser) - Patrick Goldstein hates—hates—when people text in movie theaters. He's a "purist," he writes in the Los Angeles Times , and can make an impassioned argument about how texters are missing out on the "awe and exhilaration" a great movie can provide if they're constantly...

Texting Pilot Forgot to Lower Wheels

Forcing Jetstar flight to abort landing just 392 feet from ground

(Newser) - If you get bugged by drivers who text, you'll likely be infuriated by this tale ... of texting while flying. The Age reports on the newly revealed May 2010 incident, in which a Jetstar plane had to abort a landing just 392 feet above the ground because the wheels were...

Good-Bye, Phone Call: Texts Rule Teen Communication
Good-Bye, Phone Call: Texts Rule Teen Communication
survey says
Mar 19, 2012 1:30 PM CDT

Good-Bye, Phone Call: Texts Rule Teen Communication

Text messages rising as phone calls fall

(Newser) - So much for the olden days of talking on the phone for hours: Texting is now the "dominant daily mode of communication" for teens, according to the results of a recent Pew Research Center survey. The median number of texts per day is now 60 for teen users, up...

Paris Hilton Single Hurts the World's Collective Ear

'Drunk Text' might make you wish for the 'Stars Are Blind' days

(Newser) - It's tough to expect much from Paris Hilton in the musical arena, but it seems the Internet didn't expect something quite this awful: A spoken-word techno song (that's right) whose first line is "I went out the other night, to, you know, dance with my bitches....

Teens Text and Google for Newfangled Sex Ed

Health orgs and school districts offer sex ed online

(Newser) - Why teach sex education in class when students prefer to text and Google about it anyway? So say some health organizations and school districts that are setting up sex-ed websites and texting services for teens, the New York Times reports. And students seem to like it: “You can ask...

Texting While Driving Surges
 Texting While Driving Surges 
survey says
Dec 8, 2011 10:48 AM CST

Texting While Driving Surges

Up 50% last year: survey

(Newser) - Despite 35 states now banning it, the practice of texting while driving continues to increase, according to new research. An observational study conducted at selected stoplights and intersections last year found that at any given moment, 0.9% of drivers were using a hand-held device; that's up from 0....

Children and Teenagers Not 'Sexting' Graphic Images Very Often: Study
 Teens Not Chronic 
 'Sexters' After All 
study says
Dec 5, 2011 3:57 PM CST

Teens Not Chronic 'Sexters' After All

Only 10% of children aged 10 to 17 have 'sexted': study

(Newser) - So much for pervy teens flooding each other's cell phones with naked images. Despite the prevalence of reports on teen "sexting," it seems only 10% of kids aged 10 to 17 have texted sexual photographs—and just 1% have texted images graphic enough to violate child porn...

How Your Discarded Phone Can Improve Global Health

It can send texts, and one advocate says the Third World can benefit

(Newser) - Text messages could be the key to successful health care in poor countries. At least 24-year-old Josh Nesbit thinks so. He's the CEO of nonprofit startup Medic Mobile, which disperses old cell phones to create a text messaging network that can connect doctors to patients, monitor the spread of...

Malady of the Cell-Obsessed: 'Text Neck'

Head is too heavy, leading to neck, back pain

(Newser) - Texting is turning out to be a real pain in the neck. Dedicated texters are spending so much time with their heads bent over their cellphones or iPads that it's causing muscle strain, creating headaches, neck and back pain, and even problems with fingers and wrists, warn doctors who...

Skype Buys GroupMe for More Than $50M
 Skype Buys GroupMe for $50M+ 
Aug 22, 2011 8:58 AM CDT

Skype Buys GroupMe for $50M+

Group-texting firm will stay in New York

(Newser) - Skype has purchased group text-messaging firm GroupMe in a deal worth somewhere between $50 million and $100 million. The startup will remain independent but will likely play a major role in Skype’s mobile and social arenas. It’s a big success for the year-old firm, writes Ben Popper for...

Philly Targeting People Who Text ... While Walking

Safety program focuses on distracted pedestrians

(Newser) - Police in Philadelphia are stepping up their campaign against bad behavior on the city's thoroughfares—and distracted pedestrians are as much a target as distracted drivers and sidewalk cyclists, officials say. Officers enforcing the "Give Respect, Get Respect" program in the city center will be looking out for...

Cops: School Bus Driver Sent 1K Texts While Driving

Connecticut woman charged with endangerment

(Newser) - A Connecticut school bus driver faces charges that she endangered the kids on her bus by texting while driving. A lot. Police say Evelyn Guzman, 47, sent and received 1,068 texts in about a month while working, the CT Post reports. Bizarrely, police got the tip to look into...

Third Masseuse: Favre Texted Me, Too

She says he wanted her to touch him...

(Newser) - Brett Favre apparently really liked those masseuses : A third masseuse (and fourth woman) has come out of the woodwork claiming the ( former? ) NFL quarterback sent her lewd text messages. Stephanie Dusenberry, who worked with the Minnesota Vikings while Favre was with them, tells Deadspin (via, initially, a typo-laden...

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