Text messaging

Cell phones are becoming an everyday necessity in the lives of almost everyone in the United States. Where ever you go, you will see people talking, texting, on social media, or even playing games on their cell phones. For most people, it seems like they can’t live without them, like the inexistence of cell phones would be the death of them. Some people may even believe in the importance of having a cell phone as a way to identify with yourself, like a part of your sense of style, or your…

Growing Up Tethered by Sherry Turkle she describes her experience of talking to high school students about being more connected to a cellphone than the world around them. I completely agree cellphones and other devices that keep us connected via web, text or call causes us to lose necessary physical interactions with other people. So much attention can be drawn from cellphones without having to leave the house, some people have friends all over the country that they may have never met.…

Disregarding safety and going well over the speed limit leads to a quick lesson what to do after feeling unstoppable doom and then destroying both a car and a guardrail. Because of the massive amount of vehicle experience that I was raised with, being in some form of vehicle nearly every day was normal for the entirety of my memorable life, I believed that driving would be extremely easy and therefore could be executed at any speed in any condition. The everlasting skid marks and dent in the…

The only times I loose my focus is when I’m driving on the road, too busy daydreaming about random things, lost in my own thoughts, perhaps trying to solve problems then end up finding myself where I intended to be. Was it because I’m used to the same road or perhaps I was multitasking unconsciously? Well, some of us may or may not know but we all have scripts for what we do in our every day life routine. In the case of driving, day by day we develop our own driving behaviors and start getting…

their childhood. Today’s society is affecting teens in many ways, but electronics are one of the most dominant ways. Most pre-teens are just receiving their first cellular phone, and they are usually excited to see what it can do and who they can text. Many cell phones today have internet access,…

I would first suggest, if a driver receives a text while operating a vehicle, stop and think whether it’s worth risking your safety—and that of others in your car and on the road—to read a text while driving. Even though there is a growing awareness of the dangers of texting while driving, that has not done much to help drivers resist the urge themselves. There are many…

you 23 times more likely to crash.. More people will be a statistic if our government doesn’t take this more seriously. That could be a family member of mine, or myself, who could get into a collision and cost my life. And lives are worth more than a text message in my…

Midlife crisis is a set theory that was proposed because of the great amounts of people that represented the theory. Mid-life crisis isn’t exactly scientifically proven it is just an over glorified theory. “Men, in particular, were said to leave their wives, buy red sports cars, and quit their jobs because of midlife panic”(Berger 2014, pg. 465). In my opinion mid-life crisis is more of a choice, or decision people in their 35’s to 50’s make. Recently media has made known the theory that maybe…

Years ago when the first car phone was invented, it wasn’t even available for every car. Often times it was businessmen or the upper-class who had these luxuries. Fast forward 30 years, it is not uncommon for multiple cell phones to be in a car at once, along with iPods, laptops, DVD players, an abundance of distractions. The picture shown above shows just how easy, common, and dangerous distractions can be. If you were to just observe people while driving, you would notice a young lady at a…

A cliché, it is, that all teenagers are “reckless”, especially behind the steering wheel. But should teenagers be able to drive at such a young age? Many will disagree, but the age of sixteen is too young for canadian teens to start driving. One in five teenagers will have a car crash within their first year of driving and sixteen year olds get into serious crashes five times the rate than that of older drivers. The leading cause of teen deaths is car accidents. In fact, about ten Canadian teens…