The advent of mobile phones, especially with text messaging, is making it easier for everyone to communicate. We send and receive text messages from anywhere.

In fact, this woman took it a notch higher by sending a text message during her own wedding.

The wedding videographer, Jim Costa, caught the bride pulling the cellphone straight from the top of her dress, seemed to read a text message, and responding by simply using her one hand.

“It was otherwise perfectly normal except for this one funny clip of the bride texting just after her dad walked her down the aisle! At one point, I noticed her doing it through my lens and I had to pull away form the camera to make certain I was seeing what I thought I was seeing. The minister was busy reading his opening comments and her back was to everyone in attendance. I was the only one to see her. Her dad glanced over at her and then saw me doing a double take and began to laugh out loud!”

We can just hope that no texting happened during the honeymoon.

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College students love to send each other racy text-messages and nude pics over their phones, according to a recent study 78% of students admit to “sext messaging” better known as “sexting” as part of their daily routines.

The study, which occurred among 200 students at the University of Rhode Island found that of the 78% of students who admitted to sexting, 56% sent nude or barely nude picture messages, while 73% of all respondents who admitted to sexting said they only did so with a romantically linked partner.

While it may be a “way of life” for many college students, they should be warned that 10% of recipients said they passed the messages and dirty pictures on to at least one friend without first getting permission from the original sending party.

According to the study’s author students are sexting because:

“At the age of most college students, people are filtering through relationships at a faster rate,” while adding, “People want to feel a sense of belonging so they are sharing more of themselves with people they are still getting to know.”

Some students interviewed were only 17 years old and admitted to sexting, even though it’s illegal to send dirty text messages under the age of 18 in the state.

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Grudgingly, this is probably only slightly less annoying than text message radio silence.

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…admit it.

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Today I learned that they make tape “for rectal use only.”

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In a 2009 Pew Internet & American Life Project study they found that 47 percent of adults who actually use text messaging admitted that they would text and drive at the same time. In contrast only 34 percent of teens between the age of 16 to 17 would text and drive.

The study then suggested that when using those numbers it means that 27 percent of all American adults have text messaged while driving.

Pew interviewed 2,252 adults in the past two months, of which 1,917 owned a cell phone and 1,189 said they used text messages.

The news comes as more Americans than ever are using cell phones and sending texts. Pew found that 82 percent of Americans over age 18 now have a cell phone and 58 percent of them text. About 75 percent of teens have mobile phones and 66 percent send texts.

Source: PC Mag

Some of the other numbers that the study found are

• 51 percent of men text while driving
• 42 percent of women text while driving
• the 18 to 33 age group are most likely to text while driving
• 56 percent of black adults text while driving
• 58 percent of Hispanic adults text while driving
• 46 percent of white adults text while driving
• 44 percent of respondents have seen dangerous behavior as related to cell phones – Web browsing, video watching, picture-taking, or gaming. \

I hate to say this but I am not the least bit surprised with much of the findings in the study.

Adults more likely than teens to text and drive, men more than women is a post from: The Inquisitr

The Google Talk iPhone/iPod Touch lets you stay on your Gmail on-the-go, as well as use the Google Chat function. It’s essentially the same program as the desktop version but with an adapted design. The main change is that when you navigate away to any other window, the program will change your status to “Unavailable” rather than leaving you connected normally.

Finally, providers may have some competition in the realm of text messaging. Maybe this will force them to look at dropping those ridiculous rates of $1,497.97 per megabyte (no exaggeration — have you read this?).

Google Gets Into Mobile Messaging is a post from: The Inquisitr