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Minimum Fine Of Fifty Dollars May Be Imposed For Texting While Driving In New York

Kristine Bellino — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:50:19 +0000

A new law that is part of the budget deal being discussed in Albany will set a minimum fine of fifty dollars for those ticketed for a first-time texting while driving offense.

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'Sleep Texting' Is Now a Thing Among Teenagers

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:58:22 +0000

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.

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Taxing Tweets: When Technology Dependence Takes Over

Gino Geruntino — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:28:10 +0000

Addiction specialists are seeing a new spike in patients with an over-dependence on technology.

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Pilot Almost Causes Devastating Crash After Texting While Flying

Don Deane — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:35:22 +0000

Texting while driving isn’t the only way to endanger your life with a smartphone. It turns out that texting while flying is spectacularly dangerous, too.

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Oops! Teen Texts Pranks About Hiding Dead Body To a Cop

Mithun Divakaran — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:32:28 +0000

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?

Shauna Wright — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:30:12 +0000

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

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:08:25 +0000

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

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:43:54 +0000

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.

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