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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA["Savanna" != Savannah]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[keen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 17th 2009 4:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hey! The 'reporter'(?) is a journalist (?)....not a Geography expert. Good catch!!  ;-)<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[LT_Prasuhn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 18th 2009 7:23AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA[So George...I guess you're 'still' NOT and expert on the Internet. Just what does the 'Google Cash System' have to do with this story about a young girl winning a 'Texting' Contest?<br><br>WOW!! Just over $400 in profit in about 2-weeks. Amazing! Many people make that at a 9-to-5 job in ONE week. The 'Google Cash System' is naught but a SCAM!!!<br><br>Bye!!<br><br>CONGRATULATIONS!, Kate....And to your 'runner-up', Dynda.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[LT_Prasuhn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 18th 2009 7:29AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA[You are so right. At work, we looked into it ... if it's the same scam you're talking about - you can make money reading ads, or something like that. Anyway, a $1.99 was required to Get into it. Okay, we devied up 20 cents each and used one of our debit cards. Inside, they want something like $200 for the 'privilege. SCAM!!! Don't get caught in it!!!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[luvscrybe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 18th 2009 1:38PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA[Wow. Now THIS is stupid. Who the hell surrendered fifty grand for this competition? So now we're REWARDING our kids for wasting their time and energy on this crap? Great. Now they're just going to spend even more time texting and even less living an actual life and learning real skills. $50,000 for being the best texter, while true people of talent waste away and die. Seriously. <br><br>Auguste Rodin, the sculptor of the famous "Thinker" statue, died homeless. He had asked the owner of a museum that he had donated much of his work to if he could live there to get out of the cold, and he was refused. Not long afterward he froze to death on the streets. <br><br>Nearly 100 years later a pampered kid wins $50,000 doing nothing. That's messed up.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nevuela]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 18th 2009 7:55AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA[I agree.  What an amazingly useless "skill".  And to acknowledge it by holding competitions and awarding money?  To the alleged "competitors", try getting some input from the natural world around you instead of out of a screen or headphones.  Look around you instead of down all the time.  What an absolute waste.........and they pay money for such things.........pathetic.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 18th 2009 8:46AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA[RODIN DIED A WEALTHY MAN IN HIS VILLA>I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE YOU GOT YOUR INFO FROM.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mmaugenest]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 18th 2009 10:11AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA[Texting skills come in handy when you're on a deployment and your boss is demanding an e-mail detailing the progress.   Yeah it's useless right now but they're building skills for the business world of tomorrow.  Shit I'm in the IT field and about to start my own business and my Blackberry keeps me to where I'm never to far to get something done at my job or communicate issues in an instant. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Platinum_Skeet]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 18th 2009 11:53AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA[i agree who paid the 50,000? couldn't they just give 1,000 to 50 deserving familys in this economy instead of rerawarding a stupid skill? Is it a skill? so what she can send texts faster,i guess we know her conversations are one sided! who comes up with these stupid contests? Is it some bored rich people? I can find better use for 50,000  Lets hope she puts it to good use towards a real skill then maybe it will be aq good thing.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[travis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 18th 2009 1:16PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA[They pay money to and otherwise award people for TEXTING?  Try giving money to someone for something meaningful.  What an absolute and total waste........ ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 18th 2009 8:45AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA[I do not think this is a good contest, because it encourage teenagers to think that they can drive while texting.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[elove1018]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 18th 2009 8:53AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA[PROBLEM IS ONE OF SOCIABILITY AND THE ABILITY TO STOP TEXTING.  I NOTED THAT DURING A SOCIAL EVENT AND SEATED AT A TABLE FOR TEN, TWO YOUNG PEOPLE (YES I AM OLD) KEPT LOOKING DOWN IN THEIR LAPS AND NATURALLY THEY WERE TEXTING).  PROBLEM? YES AS IT WAS EVERY TWO MINUTES AND IT WAS DISTRACTING AND THEY COULD BE TAKING PART IN A CONVERSATION BUT THE ATTENTION WAS ALWAYS ON THEIR DOJIGGERS FOR TEXTING.  HMMMM NO MANNERS HERE.  PERHAPS WE WILL EVOLVE WITH NO MORE MOUTHS AND THERFORE NO MORE MOUTHS TO FEED?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[UFO654 CAROLE]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 18th 2009 9:10AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA[Or to many mouth's to feed, because they can't focus on "work". Therefore NO JOB...   ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[tgonzopad]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 18th 2009 10:45AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA[This texting record thing is retarded. I hope your thumbs fall off.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mongooseproxc]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 18th 2009 9:20AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA[Whatever. She got lucky and won 50k for texting.. its chump change compared to the money Lg recieved due to this event.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[willsharmonic]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 18th 2009 9:58AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA[Gee and I thought "Cup Stacking" was useless....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 18th 2009 10:25AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA[In business, texting is not useless. Multi-million dollar deals are closed, I assume lives could or have been saved via texting,as well. Texting is essential in today's business world. But, I do think that the $50K should have been a college scholarship. Education is the what will make the US strong and prosperous, not useless skills. And for the blue collar people, education can be ANYTHING-machinist, cosmetologist, medical assistant, CDL training- skilled labor or white collar. I don't care. We need skilled, educated people to lead our country or we will all be deep crap in the years to come. I am one of theose "idiots" that texts everywhere-driving ,in a line at a store etc, but I try not to talk on the phone while doing those things. It is all perception...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[DJC EMPIRE]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 18th 2009 10:45AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA[this is stupid- that much money for doing something that is potentially dangerous-<br>ie. driving and texting, I know she is only 14 now, but this says loud and clear that<br>it's okay to do whatever else you want to while texting.   This is hardly a life<br>skill that will get her anywhere--- it's too bad the young lady who discovered the<br>supernova didn't get the money.  At least she did something useful.  The story<br>is on the web.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[picksd]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 18th 2009 10:46AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA[HA HA HA! Hilarious, this competition set women back 20 years. Go equal rights!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[drv7788]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 18th 2009 10:50AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/17/15-year-old-texting-champ-wins-50-000/</guid><description><![CDATA[Now tell her see me in that 95 Madden.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kurtis987]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 18th 2009 11:36AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
