More and more Americans are sending text messages in their sleep according to an article in the New York Daily News.
In fact, one patient of an Ohio sleep center said that they sent nude pictures of herself while sleeep-texting. I wonder if they were sent to Tiger Woods, Jesse James or Brett Favre?
“It’s so easy [...]
The vast majority of college students today use smartphones and 3/4 don’t pay for their own cell phone bill.
Think you are paying a lot for college costs? Consider that your young adult student may not be paying as much attention in class as you may have thought. 88% send a text message during [...]
Despite a preponderance of evidence showing that using text messages while driving is extremely dangerous, many Americans still are involved in this potentially deadly activity, according to a recent study by the Insurance Research Council.
18% of Americans have sent or read a text message while driving, according to the study. Surprisingly, it is not teens [...]
We’ve said it before. Don’t Text and Drive.
Text messaging while driving is estimated to cause 200,000 auto accidents per year in the United States!
Want to know who are the biggest problems? Adults. 47% of adults 18+ send or read a text messages while driving.
AT&T has announced a campaign aimed at curtailing the unsafe practice of texting while driving. The campaign hopes to remind all drivers about the risks of texting and driving, especially younger drivers.
The national promotional campaign features real life stories and the text message that was sent just prior to the accident. The commercials hope to [...]
SALT LAKE CITY and LAS VEGAS-March 22, 2010- Safe Driving Systems, LLC. (www.safedrivingsystems.com) will demonstrate how to eliminate the dangers of mobile phone calls and texting while driving using Key2SafeDrivingTM at the International CTIA Wireless 2010® show.
Key2SafeDriving is available for general release for BlackBerry®, Windows Mobile® and SymbianTM powered mobile phones. Other operating systems and [...]
A study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute found that drivers distracted by text message are 23 times more likely to be in a crash than drivers that are not sending or receiving a text message.
Drivers typing a text message spend 4.6 seconds out of every 6 seconds looking away from the road. If going [...]
Previous posts on the Text Message Blog have discussed text message breakups and sexting by Tiger Woods and just ordinary people.
In this video, Katie Couric reports on text message break ups and the massive amount of text messages that are being sent today.
Katie Couric talks about text messaging and driving. Be sure to have your teen driver watch this.
