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Teens and Texting: This Crack is for Reals

5/27/09 - Posted by Mara Siegler under Health

Pregnancy? STDs? Huffing? Crack cocaine? The newest danger to teen health is far more sinister than the traditional, time-honored methods of risky self-harm. It’s called texting, and it’s destroying the future of our world.

Major cell phone companies, when not busy rigging America’s favorite television program, pulled together information and found that 2,272 text messages was the average number sent by teens per month. That’s an OMGZ! Totally nsane, nothin to LOL about, 80 txts per day!

According to some researchers these text-a-holic children are suffering health effects from the abundance of thumb movement, including injured fingers and hands, sleep deprivation and poor performance in school. It is also screwing with their tender, still-forming identities, because it does not give them enough time alone to think over things like which Jonas Brother’s purity they would like to take and who to bully at school. Most importantly, it does not leave them enough time to have unprotected sex, huff aerosol cans in the basement until they pass out, or do heroin.

Meet the New Miss Tyrannosaurus Text

5/06/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Industry

When we first heard that Crystal Wiski, a teenager from Antelope, CA had sent 303,398 iPhone texts in one month, we thought there must be a perfectly reasonable explanation behind the exorbitant number of e-exchanges. In our minds, this perfectly reasonable explanation was something along the lines of her being a deaf mute who never learned sign language and thus needed the iPhone to communicate every single one of her thoughts and feelings, all the way down to “please pass the salt.”

As it turns out, there is a more rational explanation for Crystal’s excessive iPhone use, but not one that turns this into the feel good “technology helps those with disabilities” story of the year.  Crystal is just really, really popular. She’s so popular that in the month of April, she averaged a mind blowing seven text messages a minute, which begs the question how can she possibly hold down a 40-hour a week job, sleep less than a shark, go to school, and not be either the most annoying person in the world to hang out with or a foreign government engineered cyborg hell bent on clogging network bandwidth with a constant stream of ZOMGs and ROFLs? Pray tell.

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