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Texting while driving will kill you



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TextAppeal – For Guys! – The Ultimate Texting Guide

A quick survey: how many of you regularly send texts while driving or otherwise sitting behind the wheel of your car?

Yeah, we thought so.

Texting while driving has increased 50% over 2011.   20% of all drivers say that they’ve done this, despite laws and other regulations in place that make it an offense to do so.

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Survey says that it’s okay to send texts while in the bathroom




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Web Watch agrees with our readers that talking on the phone (whether it be via Bluetooth, hand-held cell, or corded landline) is completely inappropriate when done in the bathroom — public or private.

Nobody wants to hear your conversations while in the stall, and nobody at the other end of the conversation wants to hear the bodily functions of either yourself or your neighbors.

This is why Web Watch is thrilled that chip maker Intel decided to research and publish A STUDY ABOUT PROPER TEXTING ETIQUETTE.

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Controversy at the 2010 World Fastest Texting Championships? Who knew that texting could be this exciting?



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Back in July, Web Watch brought you information about the pending WORLD TEXTING COMPETITION that talked about how fast texting champion Kate Moore was able to send a text  message to put the US on top of the fast texting map.

Now that it’s 2010, we have A NEW TEXTING CHAMPION.

Meet South Korea’s 18-year-old Young-Ho Bae and 17-year-old Mok-Min Ha, the 2010 WORLD’S FASTEST TEXTERS.

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How Fast Can You Send a Text Message?



Sending a text message can be tough on the thumbs. 

Web Watch, however, envisions a time in the future when the full-size computer keyboards that we know today are piled in the junkpile next to the typewriter, as more and more people grow up being comfortable typing in such a small space.

But how efficient can a peanut-sized keyboard be when you’re actually trying to type something meaningful?

The World’s Fastest Texter competition is what it’s all about.

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