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An interesting twist on a growing concern.........
I'm 18 years old and I didn't get my permit until I was 17. I don't think texting had anything to do with it, I just never really had an interest in driving to begin with. However, a lot of my friends skip school the day of their 16th birthday so they can go get their permit and they take their driving test at the earliest date possible.
I'm not really seeing how texting addiction among teens makes them not want to learn to drive.
I'm 18 years old and I didn't get my permit until I was 17. I don't think texting had anything to do with it, I just never really had an interest in driving to begin with. However, a lot of my friends skip school the day of their 16th birthday so they can go get their permit and they take their driving test at the earliest date possible.
I'm not really seeing how texting addiction among teens makes them not want to learn to drive.
Ok, what if you had access to mass transit and could pretty much get everywhere you need to. And what if you had to choose between your own car or a smart phone, which would you choose? Can't have both in this scenario.
Smart phones are no different than Television, when it first hit the market.
That was the "toy of the day" back then, and as kids, we all crammed around it , watching as much of it as we could.
The big difference is we weren't driving while watching it.
Today, instead of television, there are phones, ipods,and video games to occupy young people's minds.
Now some call that an addiction, but the interest we showed as kids, when it came to watching the "new" television set, could also have been called an addiction.
Each generation has it own little quirks, and perhaps ahead, teens will be playing with gadgets that will transport them invisibly to another location, with the press of a button.
"Beam me up Scottie".
Very true. While America slept the cell phone companies dig in like a tick on a dog with their products and mis-represented "convenience" . Yes, "convenience" manufactured to create a market where was no market before.
Once more and more people started to believe that the cell phone was the panacea to all their problems the creation of "toys" (smart phones) came next to entice the children of any age under 21. The "toy factor" was the last marketing phase of making the cell phone a requirement were there was no requirement before.
The brain washing is now complete............Obi wan.
We are becoming the Borg...
Accept technology as your master..
Give up your humanity to the all encompassing techno hive mind nanny state..
Resistance is futile..
I wonder if people driving cars while reading newspapers was a problem in 1911. Somehow, I think in those days, people were smarter than that.
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