A study shows... that overhearing a cell phone conversation affects the attention we use in our daily tasks, including driving

These results suggest that a driver's attention can be impaired by a passenger's cell phone conversation," according to the study.

Since halfalogues really are more distracting and you can't tune them out, this could explain why people are irritated

We have less control to move away our attention from half a conversation ...

How much is too much... How long (time spent) is too long... Is putting all your personnel information out on the internet a good thing.

Has your cell phone become a BODY ORGAN!!!!!



Here are some other stats worth checking out:

56%: Social media users check Facebook at least once a day.
12%: Social media users check Facebook every couple of hours. ...

In my opinion Texting is quicker and goes Directly to the point of a conversation minus all the small talk. Of course when a abundance typing may occur because a complicated conversation/topic, i make the call.

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The popularity of text messaging is exploding while rates continue to go up. According to data from the US Census Bureau, 110 billion text messages were sent in the US in December of 2008—more than double the 48 billion sent in December of 2007. ...