Apparently text messaging is causing more than a new language emerging in the teen and tween set and beyond, like LOL and LMAO, and so on and so forth. Text messaging is apparently also the cause of a lot of physical mishaps because when people are texting, they aren’t paying attention to what they’re doing. Surprise, right? That’s exactly why I always tell my friends who have jumped on the texting crazed bandwagon that I don’t like doing it.

I’m the type of person who can only focus on doing one thing at once, especially if it involves any sort of dexterity or attention to spelling or thinking about what I’m writing at all. Sure, texting is a very informal way to communicate with people, but it still takes the cognition of reading and writing while you’re usually doing something else, and that is not something the average human being is made to do without occasionally screwing up from doing too many things at once.

Emergency rooms across the US are coming up with some unique and new age injuries from kids and adults who were texting and had accidents, not just car accidents either, but accidents walking into things, falling, tripping, rollerblading, skating, you name it, oh and riding a bike too! Texting does requre more attention than I think people realize, so it’s really creating problems for those that are addicted to it if they’re trying to do it while they really should have their full attention on something else.

There may be help on the horizon, but it will take a while to catch on most likely, as most new technology does when it first comes out, because we are so reluctant to hang up our old stuff, and that is using the voice recognition of some software programs to text and to call people. It means that you would be able to “text” someone hands free. by simply speaking into a phone or a mouthpiece of some sort which translates spoken words into written text and transmits them to the end user. If this technology takes off, then we may find a steep decline in the accidents in ER’s related to doing physical activity while texting.

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