texting

The idea of a kid under 18 having a cell phone always surprises me, but in the world we live in, it's probably a good thing for a teen to have on hand. However, nervous parents who are always waiting around for a reply text will have a new app to try out.

Let’s face it, we’re living in an increasingly digital world. Even toddlers are walking around with Instagram on their smart phones. In theory this should make us the communication generation. But we’re not. Check out these great texting fails for proof!

Texting and driving is something we deal with every day and really is at an epidemic level. I am still absolutely stunned how often I see people doing this while I'm driving home everyday...it's really scary! The public service campaigns about the dangers really seem to be falling on deaf ears.

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.

It's happened again...someone texting and not paying attention to anything going on around them. The woman in the video is texting her boyfriend while walking when she walks right into a water filled canal. The temperature that day was 27 so, needless to say, the water was fairly chilly.

Although it became a widely used form of communication only recently, texting is actually a decades-old technology. In fact, it celebrated its 20th birthday on Monday, which makes it older than most of the kids who use it. OMG!

We have all heard the stories and have seen some of the videos of people walking into manholes, stepping into traffic and tripping over something big while texting. Walking and texting can be very dangerous especially, if you are not paying attention to what is in front of you!

Just when we thought we'd heard everything, now there is a new medical condition related to texting.  It's a chiropractors dream...the dreaded "text neck." According to TheFrisky.com, "Thousands are being treated for the condition known as "text neck" which is caused by the neck being flexed for too long while staring down at a smart phone -- obviously an unnatural positio

Chicago could become the first city in America to make it a crime to text while riding your bicycle! Recommended by the Pedestrian and Traffic Safety Committee,it would would make it illegal to talk on a cell phone without a hands-free device while biking on the road...

Have you ever had this happen, only to find out its the phone of the person sitting in the booth behind you? With the majority of us carrying cell phone, we are constantly thinking its our phone text alert that just chimed or our email notification sound effect...