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[Sakura Blossoms]

This is how far our society has fallen...where someone's kid can win money for doing stuff like TEXTING BLINDFOLDED

http://news.yahoo.co...ng_championship

[Onionhead Attacks]

This is how far our society has fallen...where someone's kid can win money for doing stuff like TEXTING BLINDFOLDED

This is sad indeed... =.=

[peanutbutter126]

I know that some people love to text - I usually text if I'm not in a hurry - but this is ridiculous! I'm reminded of that article Shauna brought up a while ago about a girl who texted a lot. I wouldn't be surprised if she was one of the competitors...

[Yakatsu]

*was texting when he opened this topic*

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*slowly puts his mobile down*

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*slowly raises his arms up*

[Sakura Blossoms]

*was texting when he opened this topic*

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*slowly puts his mobile down*

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*slowly raises his arms up*

XDDDDDD

[Cloud]

I can do that too. Nobody is paying me.

[RyrineaHaruno]

This is a outrage.

[shadow_Uzumaki]

I'm one of those few teenagers that don't text. XD But yeah, all that time spent texting can be used for better things like.... school? And that 50K can be used to fund schools and charities and the like, instead TEXTING?! Woowww....

Edited by shadow_Uzumaki, 17 June 2009 - 04:31 PM.

[harry4e]

How society has fallen, kids today speak via texting it seems, look at you funny when you use real words, txt or phone you from on floor up instead of walking down and asking you in person. fail to understand why using txt/msn speech in fanfiction is frowned apon.

The once great human society has fallen, if you want to destroy the youth of today, just jam their mobile signal.

[Derock]

This is one of the reasons why this generation is so messed up in the first place. Though I can't blame most of them because I just saw a bunch of high schoolers having a great time playing outside.

[Yakatsu]

Oh please.

As if this was bad.

Give it 10 years and you'll have people not even leaving the house to live. And getting money to stay indoors.

[Cloud]

When I text, I only slim down long words, otherwise... it's the same as me writing an essay, proper punctuation and grammar.

I go over 250 - 300 text messages a month though. XD

[Onionhead Attacks]

When I text, I only slim down long words, otherwise... it's the same as me writing an essay, proper punctuation and grammar.

I go over 250 - 300 text messages a month though. XD

LOL and I thought that I was the only one. I prefer texting in proper grammar, for the most part mostly because I don't like abbreviating and it gives me a hard time when other people send me messages full of abbreviations =.= Plus, it's always a plus for me since I have lots of papers to write that I can type normally without hitting backspace every few words because I used an abbreviation subconsciously XD

Oh please.

As if this was bad.

Give it 10 years and you'll have people not even leaving the house to live. And getting money to stay indoors.

Anybody think of that Wall-E movie? Super fat humans sitting on a hover chair just to move around and open a video screen just to talk to the person hovering next to them...

[psycho666]

I love my country

[SweetestChick]

Kinda silly...but d@mn that's 1 lucky bastard.

[Mik3]

They've payed people for dumber stuff. I text, but not that much. It can be useful, but i can get really bored with just texting.

[True]

I'd sign up but I'm not really one for paying $30 a month for unlimited texting. I'm fine with 500 a month. Don't know how you can pay up to $60 for both internet and texting alongside your regular cellphone bill...

LOL and I thought that I was the only one. I prefer texting in proper grammar, for the most part mostly because I don't like abbreviating and it gives me a hard time when other people send me messages full of abbreviations =.= Plus, it's always a plus for me since I have lots of papers to write that I can type normally without hitting backspace every few words because I used an abbreviation subconsciously XD

I used to do that when I had a flip phone, but when the keyboards became available I started to use proper grammar and fully type out my sentences. The only problem I have now is that when I type too fast I end up hitting the wrong key on my touch screen and then hitting backspace more often then ever before XD

[Shadowmoon~]

What?! That's not fair! D8< *ehem*

Texting is okay and all, but it should NOT distract you from other important things in life.

Texting in dinner and texting in school? Not a good idea once again. DX You should learn how to divide your time properly. XD

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Aside from the bad stuff, I just hope she spends her $50,000 well. Not for texting. She should spend it more wisely, maybe for her family, charity, or something else that can help other people. I hope she makes the right decision.

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[Yakatsu]

Aside from the bad stuff, I just hope she spends her $50,000 well. Not for texting. She should spend it more wisely, maybe for her family, charity, or something else that can help other people. I hope she makes the right decision.

"For the Des Moines, Iowa, teenager, her 14,000 texts-per-month habit reaped its own rewards, landing her the competition prize of $50,000 just eight months after she got her first cell phone."

14,000. 14,000 text messages.

I somehow feel that reward won't last long. At all.

[Shadowmoon~]

"For the Des Moines, Iowa, teenager, her 14,000 texts-per-month habit reaped its own rewards, landing her the competition prize of $50,000 just eight months after she got her first cell phone."

14,000. 14,000 text messages.

I somehow feel that reward won't last long. At all.

You have a point there, actually.

But, in my opinion, she should stop texting for a while. And rest her eyes AND her fingers. I think that they're both mad at her now, for putting them in such a hard situation.

Otherwise, I agree that the prize money won't last long.

14,000 text messages--What do you think her parents did about that?