These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.
I get concerned when I see kids on their phones. They don't read enough anymore, anything longer than a tweet.
Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.
Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones - and, like, Twitter - constantly, which I have no problem with. I'd say we're not describing the children of America or anything like that, but there is something to take from it: It is kind of sad how we can't go thirty minutes without checking our phone.
You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.
I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine.
Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.
My husband doesn't text... It's always phone calls. I like that because you hear the voice the old-fashioned way.
Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old.