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Minimum Fine Of Fifty Dollars May Be Imposed For Texting While Driving In New York
March 26, 2013
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March 26, 2013
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‘Sleep Texting’ Is Now a Thing Among Teenagers
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Taxing Tweets: When Technology Dependence Takes Over
August 20, 2012
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Pilot Almost Causes Devastating Crash After Texting While Flying
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Oops! Teen Texts Pranks About Hiding Dead Body To a Cop
With the convenience and anonymity that comes with texting, you would think it’s easy to pull off a prank. But for a teenager in Arkansas, a texting prank backfired when she joked about hiding a dead body, and sent the text prank to a random local number. That random number turned out to belong to a police detective, who obviously didn’t consider the message a joke.
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Is Text Messaging the Newest Cure for Addiction?
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 the beginning.
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Too Many Drivers Eat, Text, Watch Videos and More Behind the Wheel — Survey of the Day
Buckle your seat belts, folks.
According to Harris Poll chairman Humphrey Taylor regarding a new survey, “The number of drivers who engage in potentially dangerous, in some cases extremely dangerous, behaviors while driving is terrifyingly high.”
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Average Texter Sends or Receives 41.5 Messages a Day — Survey of the Day
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.