Text Messaging on Rise With Young People

Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:19 PM EDT

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Martha Irvine, AP National Writer

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SkinnyT

And the award for Most Obvious Headline of the Day goes to ....

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#1 - Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:10 PM EDT

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The Filipino

haha. i also had "duh" playing through my head as i read this article. it was like reading an article about how water is wet.

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#1.1 - Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:28 PM EDT

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alexanderj

I think what's more interesting is articles like this were probably showing up in Japan at least 5 years ago. Their cell phone reception/feature set/options are startlingly far ahead of what we see in the US. As a _minor— example of the trend, one notices their cell cameras are generally better than ours.

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#1.2 - Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:12 AM EDT

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The Filipino

btw, i bought a sidekick 3 and it's rockin'! everyone should have one.

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#2 - Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:29 PM EDT

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Spuds Stuff

No news here. Just stating what we already now. However I would like to say that IM is not doing our social skills any good.

Are we becomming too impersonal?

Will it be that one day you no longer actually meet someone face to face or talk on the telephone. It will all be by IM or some other means where unless you can read sometimes very cryptic abbreviations you will never understand the message anyway. Another sign of the deteriating world we live in.

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#3 - Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:37 PM EDT

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Dr Juice

Are we becomming too impersonal?

I suppose that depends on the degree to which you use IM or text messaging over traditional, "more personal," forms of communications.

I text a lot at school and at work, because it takes less time and is in some ways less interruptive than making a call. With IM and can have several conversations going and still be working on, something much better than I can talk on the phone to one person and, say, write a paper. Interruptions aren't as bad on IM-you can't really "forget what you're talking about" or wonder "what was I saying?" because all you need to do is scroll up.

But at the end of the day, if I really want to talk to someone, I'd rather do it over a beer than over a landline, cellular network, or the 'Net.

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#3.1 - Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:28 PM EDT

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