Texting and Driving Graphic Video

                     This is seriously the saddest video I've seen. Texting and driving (Graphic)

Adults

There are a lot of joys about texting. I know I enjoy it. Well, sometimes. Do you ever have those people that NEVER leave you alone and you're like come one man. Other than those obsessed people texting is quite fun for me. My mom got my old crappy android phone when I updated mine and it's funny how clueless she is on how to work it. There are a lot of parents that know how to text and are up to date with this genrations technology. Not my mom. She can't even work the blue-ray player. Anyways off subject. My mom is always on me about "stupid teenagers" texting and driving.
I read that 98% of adults that own a phone text and drive and 43% of teens admited texting and driving. That's insane I think. All these adults need to shut there mouth. *laughs to self*. When an adult makes a comment about teens always texting and driving you can rub this fact in their face if you'd like.

Texting and Driving

My main focus for this blog is any situation with texting. So this week we're going to talk about texting and driving. Here are some statistics from a website I found called http://www.textinganddrivingsafety.com/texting-and-driving-stats/.
I'll share some interesting ones with you now. In 2011 23% of auto collisions involved cell phones, that's 1.3 million crashes. If you take your eyes off the road for 5 seconds going 55mph that's the equivalent amount of driving the length of a football field. That's insane! 82% of Americans ages 16-17 own cell phones 52% say they have talked on the phone while driving and 34% say they've texted while driving. That's pretty scary I’d say. So in my history class last year my teacher asked the class with a raise of hands who has texted while driving and an incredible 95% of us raised our hands including me. We all looked around the room in shock. I have changed my ways. Is a text that important you have to endanger yourself and those around you? Think about it.

Awkward part 2: Photo

Third wheeling it, definitely an awkward situation.

http://izismile.com/2013/01/25/some_experiences_of_the_third_wheel_36_pics-7.html

 

                     

Awkward.

This week on texting is about awkward situations. I was at the mall with my friends and we were all at the food court. I needed to use the bathroom and so I went by myself surprisingly. You know how we girls are. Anyway, I was walking back and this none interesting fellow stopped me, and we had the most awkward conversation I ever had. So I started to pretend to text and slowly work my way away from this guy but he wouldn't leave me alone unless I gave him my number. So, I just ran away. Moral of this story is, for one never go to the bathroom alone and more importantly, I feel like almost everyone pretends to text in awkward situations and it’s pretty funny to me. I bet when you read this you could definitely think back to when you pretended to text in an unpleasent situation.

My first post

This blog is about certain texting I see, fun facts and other texted related things. Personally I'll have to admit that I have and do text in class. It's a bad habit I know, but sometimes class just gets so boring. I need to work on that. Any who I experienced something stupid this past week. I was driving to school a couple days ago, and I was in the right lane behind this old blue car. It looked like it was made in the 90's. Well we were really far back because there's a lot of traffic in the morning around this time. About five minutes passed and we finally got to the top right under the light. I was still behind this blue car and we all know we can turn right on red if it's all clear. But his girl was just not going, and it was really frustrating. I was getting a little road rage honestly. The light finally turned green for us to go, so I'm thinking "thank goodness!" Then I realize she still isn't moving. Now I was mad. There was room between her car and the curb for me to squeeze through so that's what I did. It's funny because she was so far over the line just sitting there like she was parked. I checked to make sure her hazard lights weren't on. They weren't. So I pulled up next to her and I finally realize she has her phone crammed in her face. SHE'S BEEN TEXTING. I was so mad and I just thought "how stupid could you get." I just shook my head and drove on. I just wonder when she finally realized when the light was green because when I looked in my mirror she was still there. It makes me laugh now. So I thought I'd look up some fun facts this week and I got some pretty interesting ones. They say over 18.5 billion text messages are sent every month, like wow. The highest peak in texting is between 10:30 and 11:00 pm. Something interesting I saw was a website said people who text more than 120 text messages a day are more likely to become binge drinkers or drug users. I just thought that was interesting and wonder how they got that fact. Last fact that I thought was funny was that it's a fact that 51% of women would rather receive a text message than a card on special occasions. I'm guilty of that fact. This generation is all technology so what do people expect? I'll be observing every little thing when I see someone texting so we'll see what I come a crossed next week. See ya J