texting

Texting People Who Leave Their Numbers Public Is Equally Awful And Wonderful

Trolls are the worst, but funny trolls are shake-your-head enjoyable. You can’t help but appreciate their mastery of that craft. Textastrophe is the perfect example of that.


Sadly, People Who Walk And Text Could Actually Use This

Anyone who has tried to navigate down a busy footpath while dodging people who are obliviously looking down at their phones will appreciate this latest prank by ImprovEverywhere. Its latest mission in New York City was to pose as municipal workers, with orange “Department of Transportation” vests, and act as “Seeing Eye People” for texting-obsessed pedestrians.


Are Sane Adults Allowed To Ever Use ;) ?

You probably haven’t regularly used smileys since your middle school days, when modems screeched and President Clinton rained ordnance against Bosnian war criminals. You’ve grown up since then, but the ;) has remained inert, a relic of type. In our new modern age, is it ever OK to drop a smiley?


How Hollywood Is Making Texting Look Dramatic

We all increasingly rely on non-verbal forms of communication — email, IM, texting — to let people know what’s going on in our lives. That’s great for us, but it’s causing headaches in Hollywood when it comes to creating drama.


Bill Would Ban Wearing Google Glass While Driving In West Virginia

Google may be getting Glass’s fashion situation under control by partnering with Warby Parker, but Glass’s potential to be dangerously distracting still seems like a problem. And where there’s a problem, West Virginian legislators know to step in with preemptive regulation. Apparently.


Horrible Grammar In Text Messages Could Be A Sign Of A Stroke

In the rankings of where you need to use proper grammar and spelling, text messages has to be in the neighbourhood of last place. It’s because texts are a mindless, quick, short form of communication. But maybe writing poor word-vomit texts points to something larger… like having a stroke. That’s what some doctors have found. And they’re calling it dystexia.


SnapChat Could Start Breaking Up Your Sexts With Ads

Stopping by CNBC earlier today, SnapChat‘s CEO Evan Spiegel made the vague semi-announcement that the notorious tween sexting app is currently experimenting with “this really awesome new ad format”. Whatever that means.


Is It Okayyyyyy To Say Heyyyyyyyyyy?

There’s a virus we need to talk about. It’s spread between our brains, fingers, and keyboards, we rarely think about it, and we almost all do it. Maybe it’s harmless. Or maybe it’s corroding our entire language. Ughhhhhhhhhhh!


Redesigned Umbrella Handle For Those Who Can’t Stop Texting

If you’ve ever tried to frustratingly juggle your phone and umbrella like some hapless idiot in an infomercial, you can rest assured there’s at least one other person who’s been in the same situation. But instead of grumbling about it, they went and created the Brolly: an umbrella with a redesigned handle that makes it easier to text in a downpour.


Apple Users Send Two Billion Glitchy, Slow iMessages Every Day

Apple is talking finances today, and it’s dropping some pretty crazy factoids: not only are there 250 million iCloud users, they’re sending two billion messages per day. Now if only the damn thing worked well.