Did you get the title? Chances are your kid would. You cant walk through a school, mall, or any place kids congregate without seeing texting. Am i the only one annoyed by this? Whatever happened to calling people? Am I not worth the few seconds it would take to dial my number? Am I not worth correct grammar, or even correct spelling? The answer, in short, is no.
Kids these days are more addicted to their phones then cocaine. When a class was asked if they ever left their phones home by accident, each said that they had had at least 100 texts waiting for them when they got home. You know what the most amazing thing was? One kid reported he had come home to over 500 texts on his cell phone.
I don’t know about you, but I didn’t know cell phones would hold 5oo texts.
I don’t know a single kid who would leave their beloved cell at home, much less be off it for more than ten seconds. If you don’t get the picture yet, this will help. They have texting rehab clinics! You don’t need rehab for good things.
Texters have actually developed early arthritis and other old age problems with their joints, but they happen to be sixteen. You know you are doing something wrong when you get a disease 50 years early because of it.
Still, I could overlook that if it wasn’t so annoying talking to them. As you speak, they read and reply to texts, not even looking at you as their thumbs fly across the tiny little pad. Are they paying attention? Good question, I have no idea. The person they are texting is apparently not worthy to hear their voice, and I’m apparently not worthy to bother paying attention too.
It is in the classrooms? You bet! Kid writing? Nope, texting. Reading? His texts! Listening, maybe to an iPod, but probably texting.
Forget H1N1, this is the real pandemic! Soon all we will be reduced to is emoticons and single syllable pre-words before our culture collapses entirely.
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