Just read a cute Associated Press story on a sign of the times – how excessive texting can hamper dating.
“Texting can, of course, have its advantages in a relationship, for flirting, connecting, even ‘text sex.’ But often, it just gets in the way,” wrote Martha Irvine.
A woman who works at the nursing school at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University broke up with a beau “because of his constant cell phone usage with friends and ex-girlfriends during movies and dinners out.”
“I don’t think he ever got the message in spite of the fact that we talked about it many, many times,” the woman said. “I think he’s just addicted!”
Irvine cited information from Chicago company Vibes Media about how rapidly texting has increased since 2001 as well as a survey done by Pew Internet & American Life Project. It “found that half of adults 18 and older have a cell phone and use it to send or receive text messages.”
It may be poor taste to do so, but more often, people are texting while talking, eating and other activities.
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