Text messaging

and service. People could communicate without the use of a land line and carry the phones with them. As technology improved, the methods of communication changed. Text messaging became a method of communication to send short messages that does not require calling up and talking to a person for longer period of time. For an example a text message may be something asking about plans for lunch or a parent asking their kid where

Section V Preliminary Literature Review Short message service (SMS) better known as text message became popular within the past five years. Although [If "Although" did not begin an introductory phrase, this sentence is probably a fragment] text messages are a fast and convenient method of receiving and relaying a message there are significant dangers that coexists with texting while driving. The risk associated

Do you or you know someone who does text and drive? If so, by now you would know the risks of texting and driving. It’s been in campaigns, taught at school, and in the news. It’s a very serious problem that is occurring in our generation today. As our society is surrounded over technology, especially our phones. There are many organizations helping not only teens but adults break the habit of texting and driving, preventing any more danger to occur. You’ve probably already heard the big deal of

Cell Phones and Driving In today’s society we’ve all become attached to our cell phones. Cell phones make our lives easier in many ways we can check our email, receive phone calls, send text messages, listen to music, and take pictures, all at our finger tips. With all this convenience, however there is a dangerous side to cell phones, and that’s when we use them while driving. Most of us are guilty of using cell phones while driving, but have we ever thought about its danger? Five states plus

The definition of “distracted driver” is attention given to a non-driving- related activity. Texting and driving is the most common distraction amongst drivers. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration “sending or reading a text takes your eyes off the road for 5 seconds. At 55 mph, that’s like driving the length of an entire football field with your eyes closed.” Texting while driving encourages you to look away from the road which can reduce the driver's reaction time resulting

Over the past decade, the number of textual communications that we undertake, on a daily basis, has expanded: the internet, emails, and text are now the bedrock of everyday communication. Texting and calling are very convenient for many reasons; however, both can also be very inconvenient at times. One of the main reasons calling is better that texting, is any issue can be dealt with faster and more efficiently by calling. Another advantage of calling over texting is people tend to notice things

parents. Lauryn will graduate high school this year and she plans to attend University of Virginia to study law. She just received her driver’s license and she is excited of becoming a motorist. Lauryn plans to send the news to all her friends via text message. Also, Lauryn made the fast decision to drive her used car that her parents presented to her as 17th birthday present. She drives down the street to her friend Daniela’s house to retrieve her for a joyride. As her parent’s image disappear through

are going to have cell phones in class regardless of the punishments associated with getting caught; the main reason is that they seldom get caught. With one teacher and roughly thirty students, it is easy to sneak by the teacher’s gaze and send a text message here or there or find the score to the big game that you missed. Michael Rich, pediatrician and media expert, says, “Pandora’s box is open here… What we need to do is take control of them instead of them control us” (Teachers vs. Texting).

and make excuses for using the cellphone while driving by invoking exceptionalism. Since it is impossible for all drivers to completely eliminated texting while driving, “textalyzer” may be the answer to alleviating fatal crashes caused by those who text while

There are about 18.7 billion texts sent per day. That is a lot of texts, considering there are about seven billion people in the world. The big question is, why do cellphone users choose texting over calling, or calling over texting. The texting vs calling debate has been going on since SMS, short message service aka “texts”, were created by Neil Papworth in 1992. Many people state that texting is more efficient to the demands of everyday life, but opponents will argue that texting is impersonal