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LAURA M. HOLSON, Text Messages: Digital Lipstick on the Collar, December 8, 2009
What do highschool teenagers, Tiger Woods, and Mayer Morganroth have in common? When averaging 584 text messages a month (like the average cell phone user) at some point they thought, "What have I done?"
Since September of 2007, text messaging has increased 60%, making it a hayday for lawyers hunting down a digital trail of adultery and spousal abouse. The text don't lie.
Like Peter Pan, we don't see our digital shadow until it is pointed out to us. Now days, it seems to loose one's cell phone is to experience a personal death. We are cut off from the world. Thank goodness, for social networking! "When God closes one door, there is bound to be a window open somewhere." I recently read on a friend's wall he was in Utah and cellphone less.... but don't worry friendsters, he can still update his facebook status!
Our cell phones are like our second skin. Increasingly we are more comfortable sharing our intimate thoughts through texting and social networking than talking. But if you want to avoid hurting the ones you love, use caution with the digital permanence of you passions.
Digital LIpstick
LAURA M. HOLSON, Text Messages: Digital Lipstick on the Collar, December 8, 2009
What do highschool teenagers, Tiger Woods, and Mayer Morganroth have in common? When averaging 584 text messages a month (like the average cell phone user) at some point they thought, "What have I done?"
Since September of 2007, text messaging has increased 60%, making it a hayday for lawyers hunting down a digital trail of adultery and spousal abouse. The text don't lie.
Like Peter Pan, we don't see our digital shadow until it is pointed out to us. Now days, it seems to loose one's cell phone is to experience a personal death. We are cut off from the world. Thank goodness, for social networking! "When God closes one door, there is bound to be a window open somewhere." I recently read on a friend's wall he was in Utah and cellphone less.... but don't worry friendsters, he can still update his facebook status!
Our cell phones are like our second skin. Increasingly we are more comfortable sharing our intimate thoughts through texting and social networking than talking. But if you want to avoid hurting the ones you love, use caution with the digital permanence of you passions.