Texting

Texting and walking is a pretty bad idea, particularly when you’re walking down steps. Which is something the young lady in the background of this live CBC report is bound to remember the next time she tries to look at her phone while navigating a short flight of concrete stairs.

It turns out suffers from alcohol dependency might be able to kick the habit by doing what comes natural… texting. Yup, a new study has found actual evidence that there may be a health benefit to text messaging. Research with young problem drinkers found those who sent and received weekly text messages tracking their alcohol consumption drank less at the end of the 12-week program than they did at

I know there are those who say it's government trying to intervene again, but I think this would be a good thing even though it would make me change my personal cell phone usage.  While I never read or send texts while driving, I do use my cell phone when I drive sometimes but I always use my Bluetooth so I can keep both hands on the wheel.  I don't feel distracted, but there are those that would

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.

An Alabama teen turned a mistake into a good thing!  He was caught texting while driving and his lesson learned, will help save lives.  He created a new phone app called "Text Pilot", and it costs a mere 99 cents to download. Parents, if you are interested in making sure your teen is where they say they are....this is worth it AND it also has an emergency app that dials 911 and lets othe

While just glancing at a text message, you can travel the length of a football field while driving and do it with your eyes completely off the road.  It is amazing the danger it presents but texting while driving is still a big problem and a killer, especially of our nations youth. The statistics are startling. Teenagers are three times more likely than their parents to die in traffic accidents. I

Last week, blogger Sean Symons captured horrifying footage of a teen driver who crashed into the side of the road, then hit two oncoming cars, all while he was allegedly texting and driving. According to his YouTube page, Symons called the police when he spotted the texting teen, then pulled out his camera to catch the teen in the act. The original video was reportedly handed over to the police as

This is something that I saw on Facebook from a friend.  It makes me sick when I see someone texting while driving.  Please watch this video and share it with others to spread the message.