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Boston Globe ^ | 3/27/11 | Beth Teitell

[Lysandru]

My son is 14. We make him leave his phone on the kitchen counter when he goes to bed.

Bingo!

[wally_bert]

I see so much of that. A lot of people I run into in my side ventures (I don’t hire them) will, even if they have a spare 30 seconds text and text. Wouldn’t that get old or constantly being on a phone, esp. with an earpiece? Apparently it doesn’t.

I have no texting plan and don’t want one. People think I am backwards or something.

[perez24]

I use my son’s cell phone as an alarm clock...no more overnight texts!!!!

[raccoonradio]

There’s a radio public service announcement with a young boy either IM-ing or texting (prob. the former actually). He types to his “friend” that he’s never met in person that “we have so much in common, parents can be such a pain!” The person he’s IM-ing or texting says “Let’s go to the park and meet up. We’ll wear our baseball caps backwards...I’m not
telling MY folks!” As he says this his voice gets deeper and deeper. In other words this “kid” is an adult perv who wants to meet up with a young boy...

[Boogieman]

I’m a tech guy also, and I agree with everything you said. I don’t text, I don’t have fb, in fact, I don’t even have a cell phone anymore, but I am probably going to have to change that, just for work and emergencies. The worst part of all this is that, it detracts from real-life relationships for a lot of people. Even if you are texting your real-life friends and relatives, it’s so much more impersonal, and it can’t be good for maintaining a relationship if that starts to become the primary means of communication.