Text messaging

From an article called, Effects of Text Messaging on College Students’ Perceptions of Personal Health, it states, “Text messaging allows young adults to build, maintain, and sustain relationships, organize events, and social gatherings, and share new and exciting experiences with their friends and peers. (Hudson, Bliss, Fetro, 1)”

also other. The number of people texting and driving are increasing by the years. The statistics for people being killed by texting and driving is three thousand one hundred and fifty-five and, yet people still want to risk their life for a text. Drivers who text and drive are constantly texting are going to get what they deserve, which could possible be death if they don’t stop. While cell phone etiquette can cause death from driving it also cause death from being disrespectful to a person on social

“Not a wired culture, but a virtual cultural that is wired shut: compulsively fixated on digital technology as a source of salvation from the reality of a lonely culture and radical social disconnection from everyday life” (Doheny-Farina, 1996). The mobile telephone has been the most rapidly disseminated piece of technology in world history. The first commercially available mobile devices were available in the 1980’s, and since then have expanded exponentially. In 1994, Finland was the world leader

devices that prevent the in-car use of cellphones. Who is your primary audience or reader? Why? Be detailed in your answer about your audience. My primary audience will consist of the teenagers and the young adults as they are the ones most likely to text and drive. In a sentence or short paragraph, what is your thesis statement, including your angle? Write what will appear in your essay. My point is that although the use of apps and devices that prevent in-car use of the cellphone is helpful at preventing

done over the internet or cell phone. Companies and applications can access your data and use it in any manner they wish according to their terms of service. Hackers can see anything that they can sneak themselves in to. No information you put online, text or email should be considered fully private. One way you can privatize your information and lower the chance of your data

that is 1.3 million crashes. That number has now rose to more than 1.6 million automobile accidents in 2014. In this century most Americans own a cellphone. 34% of Americans say that they have texted while driving. Although a vast majority of teens text while drive, they are not the only ones. 27% of adults admitted to texting and driving. This is a bigger problem than most people realize. Most children follow the example their elders set. This means, if your child or even sibling see that you are

Texting and Driving In 2012, Texas college student Chance Bothe was texting that he needed to stop texting because he said that he could die in a car accident (Zafar, 2012). He was driving at the same time, causing him to drive into a cliff. He miraculously survived but not without serious injuries – traumatic brain injuries, a fractured skull, a crushed face and a broken neck (Zafar, 2012). In 2013, 19-year old Elizabeth Haley Meyers was on her way to Royal Farms in Maryland when she hit 30-year

requires divided attention is texting and driving at the same time. Therefore, due to restrictions on attention, which are selective and limited, cause sending a text message impair an individual’s driving performance. As a result, driving distractions are due to the effects of dividing attention into two actions which are composing a text message and maintaining the car in the designated lane. Rumschlag “et al.”, hypothesized that the age of the driver will influence how he or she is able

 Cognitive Distraction These tasks require mind-off-the-road. Researcher Green found out that the tasks which are not visually demanding like day dreaming or listening to a long speech in phone could increase the probability of crashes. Two different conditions and a control condition were compared with 24 participants actively participating in it [5]. Fig.2.1: Experimental results for cognitive distraction [5] III. Factors affecting Driver performance and Accident Hazard Many

addition, a conversation can also be taken the wrong way because of how it is typed in a text message as opposed to hearing the person 's real voice and emotions through a phone call. As a result, the consequences of being attracted to texting greatly impacts our younger generation, and society as a whole. Something that is commonly an issue with texting is miscommunication. When in a conversation through a text message, a person’s tone of voice can not be indicated resulting in a misunderstanding