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Great Gifts for Friends

Details: Published on Sunday, 27 June 2010 00:00; Written by Super User

My Textalk provides three texting dictionaries in small pocket glossaries. Over 1,000 terms in small 2.5 x 4.5 size perfect bound books to fit in your backpack or pocket. Have great fun with friends and review thousands of words, and their definitions,as well as, questions boys have asked about girls, and questions girls have asked about boys. If you want to learn more about the opposite gender, buy a My Textalk pocket glossary today. We want to hear from you, so add your terms now!

Texting Pocket Glossaries

Details: Published on Thursday, 16 July 2009 00:00; Written by Super User

So i can't remember a time when language has been so incredibly non intuitive as with text messaging. Different shortcuts, different acronyms. And English is my first language. You can image how immigrants struggle to understand the American language.

All these terms can mean different things. So do you feel it would be helpful to have one master set of terms that everyone can learn so their are no communication breakdowns?

Etiquette Isn’t a Thing of the Past in Texting, It’s JC

Details: Published on Tuesday, 17 March 2009 00:00; Written by Super User

By Beth Allen, Contributing Writer

Six middle-school kids sit side-by-side in the front row of a theater waiting for the movie to begin. Getting that many kids together in any social gathering when it's not a birthday is no mean feat, yet there is no laughter or conversation among them to mark this rare occasion. Instead, they sit in wordless isolation; their shoulders hunched over small illuminated screens, their heads dropped forward in silent concentration, their fingers busily sending text messages to other kids who are not in this small group. Welcome to the social norm of the 21st-century.

Looking back to a technologically simpler time, Emily Post summed up her philosophy for right living in saying: "Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners."

Using that definition in this context, is it acceptable for friends to sit together and text other friends or is it insensitive? Has text messaging become just one more area where society is losing the manners battle or do we need to expand our ideas on proper etiquette to encompass developments in technology? How is text messaging used by our kids, and what is our responsibility as parents to guide them in texting etiquette?

Test Your Text Messaging Manners

Details: Published on Tuesday, 17 March 2009 00:00; Written by Super User

Do you make the people you are with your first priority over making phone calls or text messaging?
Do you stop text messaging when you're with either friends or family?
If you're an adult, do you stop texting work or friends when you're spending time with your children?
Do you use text messaging when you're with others for planning and logistical purposes only?
Do you make text messages quick and to-the-point when you're with other people?
Do you have an automatic catch-phrase memorized for quick exits out of text messaging if it's awkward for you to end conversations?
Are you comfortable asking the people you're with to stop text messaging when you are with them if they engage in conversation?
Do you excuse yourself politely if you feel you have to take a text message when you're with people?

SCORING

1. If you answered "yes" to all questions then: Congratulations, you have managed to combine old-world manners with new world technology!
2. If you answered "yes" to only half the above questions, your manners may need to be rebooted.
3. If you didn't answer "yes" to any of the above questions then you need a system overhaul.

Texting Can Land You in Jail

Details: Published on Thursday, 19 February 2009 00:00; Written by Super User

So the texting community is all the rage. Unfortunately a young lady was just arrested for texting in class. Friends, there is texting etiquette, and its important to know there is a time and a place for everything.

"A 14-year-old girl in a Wisconsin high school paid the price for ignoring her teacher with a court date and $298 in bail. The student was reportedly text messaging throughout math class, despite her teacher's requests to stop texting and to hand over her cellphone."

So there you have it. Don't text in class...or in church....or when you are with friends. There is a time and a place.

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