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Do You Play Games When Texting or Calling Back?
There are so many silly dating games that people play in order not to look too eager or worse, desperate. I knew a married woman who carried her playing hard to get into her marriage! I was shocked when she told me that she never, ever called her husband; she waited for him to call her and took her sweet time getting back to him.
Is Cell-Phone Snooping Ever OK?
Is going through someone's text messages OK if you suspect he's up to no good? That was the question on The Hills this week: Heidi goes through Spencer's text messages, finds a text from a bartender he'd been flirting with, and promptly deletes it. In therapy, all Spencer can talk about is how Heidi shouldn't have gone through his phone.
Texting Democracy: Estonia to Vote by Mobile Phone in 2011
American Idol may let you text in your vote, but Estonia will be the first actual country to implement voting by cell phone. Technologically-savvy citizens will place chips into their cell phones, that authenticate identifications, before they cast their ballots for the 2011 parliamentary election.
Estonia has already used online voting, without any major security breaches.
OMG! Text Messages Can Save the World
Pope Benedict XVI plans to send out spiritual text messages to thousands of young Catholics during World Youth Day this summer. 200,000 young people are expected to attend the six day event in Sydney, Australia. The entire WYD08 is going Web 2.0 by broadcasting religious teachings on the web and setting up a social networking site.
Trend Watch: Walking, Texting, and Running into Sh*t
The following story was yesterday's headline of the day, but this live-action news coverage is too good to pass up. Injuries caused by walking while texting are on the rise and a London charity has decided to do something about it. That is, they're padding lamp posts located along the "most dangerous" texting streets.
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Padded Lampposts Tested in London to Prevent Cell Phone Texting Injuries
When texting first hit the scene, it was a convenient, quick way to convey a message without killing costly cell phone minutes. But convenience gave way to annoyance with the rise of text message break-ups, textual harassment, and — OMG! — texting while driving.
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Tech Dating 101: Canceling Plans Via Text
Welcome back to this week's installment of Tech Dating 101, where geeksugar
and I team up to help you out with the issues that arise when technology and dating meet. We've covered the Internet, but this week it's textual — Enjoy!
Is it OK to decline a date or cancel plans via text?
You Asked: He Texts but Won't Ask Me Out
Dear Sugar,
There is a guy that I've been talking to for five months now. We text message every day and he usually initiates the conversations, but he hasn't asked me out yet. He was in a messy two-year relationship so I understand that he might not be ready to start something with me, but his flirtatious messages leave me confused and I'm starting to lose my patience here.
Greg Behrendt on Technology and Dating
It seems that most of you rely on text messaging when it comes to communicating with your love interest, but according to Greg Behrendt, author of He's Just Not That Into You, we can call the shots on how to communicate with our crushes. To see what he has to say about the role technology plays in the dating game, read more
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