texting

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!

Thanks to Team Coco for giving this educational guide to texting for seniors to the world. But you might not want to let your grandparents see it. Unless you want them to have constant, instant access to making you feel bad in that special grandparent way, that is...

We already know texting while driving is bad, but new research seems to indicate that even before kids are old enough to get behind the wheel, texting might have another downfall: it’s making their grammar worse.

Statistics show that 80 percent of college students engage in sexting, and a quarter of women in the more cougarish age bracket of 35-44 do it, too. That’s a whole lot of sexytalk flying around for free — until now. Welcome to paid phone sex for the modern age.

If you're texting and walking at the same time and there are stairs present and they happen to be filming a live news shot around where you are, there is nearly a 100% chance that you'll have a precious YouTube moment like this.

While the Amish completely reject most technologies, like the automobile, they apparently aren’t dead set against cellphone use. In fact, Amish man Willard Yoder used his cellphone to send 600 sexually charged text messages to a 12-year-old girl.

We all (hopefully) know that texting while driving is a bad idea.   For some people though, even doing it while walking might be something to avoid - as evidenced by this girl doing a massive face-plant into a mall fountain.   And of course, the security guards/mall employees ended up posting on YouTube for our entertainment...