The Average Teen Sends Over 3,000 Texts a Month, Nielsen Finds

in other news, the average teen suicide rate is also up.

When I read about an auto accident and it says crossed the center line... I wonder if it is what happened to us. A texter crossed the center line slamming into our Blazer at 60 mph... He never even applied the brakes. Our guardian angel was looking out for us,, a split second difference and we would have been killed in a needless head-on collisions. Our truck was totalled, insurance company gave us 2 months of hassels. We lost several thousand dollars in the settlement.... PARENTS TELL YOUR KIDS,,, KIDS STOP TEXTING WHILE DRIVING.... READ WHAT HAPPENED TO US...If its that important -pull over and send your message or have a passenger do the texting. Lives can be ended or altered forever by your act of self centered stupidity......

I think there needs to be some sort of texting etiquette class, too.
I'm 19 and I just got my first cell phone. (My parents don't pay for my big expenses (medical aside) and I've finally been able to juggle work and school, thus paying my own cell phone bill!)

I find it to be so rude when I see teens texting while talking to an adult/teacher, in class, etc.
& texting while driving is so silly. The text can't wait until a stop light at least? I always use my voice command while driving if I need to get ahold of somebody on the road. It's so much easier to say, "Call, so and so" without even having to take your eyes off of the road.

I FIND IT RUDE WHEN PEOPLE YOU ARE WITH ARE TEXTING OR CALLING. THIS HAPPEN TO ME WENT TO DINNER WITH FAMILY, DAUGHTER INLAW WHO IS 53, WAS TEXTING CO_WORKER. ABOUT NOTHING.GRANDAUGHTER SAME WHEN WE ARE OUT, OR ON PHONE SHE IS TEXTING HER FRIENDS I DID TILL HER ONE DAY, THIS IS VERY RUDE, AND IF SHE WANTS TO DO THIS WHILE OUT WITH GRANGMA,THAN PREHAPES SHE NEEDS TO STAY HOME, AND TEXT ALL SHE WANTS,LIKE EVERTHING ELSE THESE DAYS, PARENTS FAIL TO TEACH THERE KIDS. THANKS

Why can't you people just drive like a car is supposed to be driven. You all use it as your damn phone booth and people like that poster who almost got killed almost paid the price for your selfishness of talking on the phone and texting.

As to the person boasting about their voice command? Excuse me! You're driving a car, NOT a phone booth. You may think because your eyes are on the road with phone voice command you're safe. But your mind is on that more than you realize. Your reaction time will be drastically cut in half if because you're too busy yacking. Who you may hit won't care if you had voice command. Think that'll never happen you hitting someone? Do you want to really test that theory? Should a total stranger be forced to test that theory to see if you're all there? Leave your phone on you for emergencies only when you're driving. Start thinking of others instead of yourself. Your philosophy is the same held by drunks on the road. Oh I only had one or two beers. I'm safe.I've driven a thousand times home with booze in me and nothing happened. Until he plows into someone on the 101st time. Who knows, maybe he used his voice command to call another bar before Lights Out!

Before my car was given up because of finances, sure I had a phone. If I was late for an appointment I'd wait until I hit a red light. The world wasn't going to collapse if I waited to call. If it rang while I was on the road, it wouldn't be answered until a light. If the other end got pissed because it took too long to answer? Tough. I had lots of CD disks. That disk wouldn't be changed until I hit a red light and even then I'd constantly check to see if that light changed. If it did and I couldn't get the disk in without looking I'd wait again.Why? I thought of others instead of me. My music could wait. My music was never blaring. It was low so I could hear sirens. It was low so no one would feel my music's vibration ten miles away and if I rolled down my window for a smoke, I wouldn't jar the buildings and smash windows because of volume which too many of you inconsiderates do. I'm sick of hearing car music loud enough to vibrate bone. If I needed to light a cigarette when I drove, I waited until a stop light. You have to take your eyes off to light that cig. In that split second I could've hit someone. I won't do that because I care about others.

Texting accidents? There wouldn't be if parents had spines and said you don't get a phone if all you're going to do is text. It's so foolishly simple. If the kid doesn't like it, tough. They can walk since they never purchased the car they take for granted in having. Selfish adults who text and have accidents should go to jail for a long time to think about what they did to someone else instead of being self-centered. Just today a friend was taking me somewhere and the car backing out of a driveway almost hit me on the passenger side. He honked several times and when the backing out car hit their brrakes it was like whiplash. They weren't going no 2 miles and hr. either. Passing I got a glimpse of the driver. They had a cell phone and were talking on it. I almost got hit! The passenger looked suprised that they had to stop so suddenly. Would I have been safer if that driver was using voice command? Doubt it. You're still distracted. Defensive driving means just that! You're not yacking on a phone, you're not calling people on voice command, you're not texting. How much simpler does it have to be!

Pay attention people before you get killed or you kill someone else!

I just LOVE how you make such drastic accusations. You think I really use my car as a "phone booth"? You really think I yak it up every time I get in the car? No. I said IF I need to get ahold of somebody. Quick, I need directions. Quick, I need to ask if somebody knows the nearest gas station in such and such area. Quick, I need to alert somebody that there is an accident on such and such road, etc etc etc.

I can't stand people like you. With your accusations and then you run around with your genius certificate in your hand like you do no wrong and should be awarded something for your snarky comments.

Sheesh.

i let my husband handle the cell phone but we allways got it on i mean incasse my mom and dad need something from the store and we are in town or meds we get it for them i mean we keep our cell phone on just incase mom and dad call us or we need to call them to bring us gas or oil for our car or something yea they got 2 cell phones one is my moms and one is my dads and one is ours and we will park in a parking lot to call mom and dad or i am driveing and my husband is in the passager seat he will call them and ask them if they need anything from town and we are on food stamps and ssi my daddy pays for 3 cell phones and hughes net for my mom she is on hughes net i am on dail up

my mom and dad have 2 cell phones and we got one me and my husband we do keep our cell phone on when i drive so that when we go and get my mom and dads meds or anything they need from town we dont mind picking them up and we dont text message eather we just use it for talking