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Text Messaging
Why I can "text" faster than my husband
Posted on Nov 12, 2008 8:34:00 AM | By KristinBrandt

Watching my 36 year old husband try to send a text message is, to quote a new friend of mine from down south, a "hoot." He stares, perplexed, at the key board before slowly starting to peck out a short...

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Text Messaging
Text at your own risk...
Posted on Aug 5, 2008 8:59:00 AM | By KristinBrandt

Browsing through a recent Boston Globe on my borrowed Amazon Kindle (more on that later), I couldn't help but laugh at this headline - "ER docs: Don't text and walk, skate -- or cook." According to the Associated Press article:...

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Will Text Messaging Change the Way Kids Write, Spell?
Posted on Jun 3, 2008 9:28:16 AM | By DoryDevlin

As someone who makes a living from words, correctly spelled ones in complete sentences, I'd be lying if I said the text message craze among kids who have crafted a shorthand language that has no relation to sentences and correct...

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Text Messaging
Why You Should Text Message
Posted on Mar 5, 2008 9:00:00 AM | By Erin—Manic Mommies

There was this hilarious television commercial promoting a company’s text messaging service. (See video below.) If you haven’t seen it, the commercial features a mom speaking with her family about their text messaging habits. The kids and their grandmother start...

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