[This is part 1 of a 3 part series on Teens & Technology.]
If you know a teenager, you know that they are texting machines. In fact, they actually have races now to see who can text the fastest. It is their medium for communication, something that John Dyer would say will have consequences, both good and bad, on that generation and those to come.
But just how much are teenagers texting?
Did you know Emily Post has weighed in on text messaging?
It wasn’t covered in her 1922 book Etiquette, but you can find it on her website.
Well, not her website. You know what I mean 
Here are some etiquette rules you should keep in mind when text messaging, Tweeting or any other messaging you feel the urge to use on your smartphone:
In May of 2011, Twitter bought the most widely used desktop and mobile social media client, Tweetdeck. For the longest time, nothing was done with the old beta application that ran on Adobe Air.
The anger in the title spurs from the fact that while Twitter may have paid a lot of money and then “upgraded” the application from Adobe Air to both Windows and Mac native clients, the core components of the application were removed. In fact, the flexibility, power, and dynamic functions that were removed is what had made it so successful. Because of this, many people have dropped the application for others, not to mention, they paid $40 million dollars to make a great thing simply okay.
A long time ago, I had a dog that learned how to jump the fence.
This is a real downer for dog owners. After all, it really defeats the purpose of having a fence, when the primary purpose of the fence is to keep your dog from leaving the yard.
I so wish I would have had one of these:
Watch what you tweet…
The Game is going may be charged. Again.
The popular West Coast rhyme-smith isn’t in trouble for any myriad of stereotypical offenses we have almost come to expect from our generation of Musically Gifted. Not for assault, not for weapons, not for relieving himself in public.
He is in trouble for tweeting.
In all fairness, he didn’t tweet about the weather, or what 5-star restaurant he was having cracked crab at. Authorities allege that he incited a “telephone flash mob” by tweeting his half a million Twitter followers to tie up the local Sheriff’s department switchlines with phone calls. He told them to call and ask for an internship.
In the time, the Sheriff’s department contends, people with serious issues had difficulty reaching emergency services.
Serious charges, no doubt. Game took the tried and true method of fighting computer and phone based allegations. He says he was hacked.
Mobile computing is changing the face of our culture. It’s changing how we work, how we socialize, how we organize our lives, it’s changed a lot.
With this has brought awesome opportunities for new talent to step up, and actually, the whole thing has provided tens of thousands of jobs. Mobile technology is good for the economy.
Seth Godin provides an interesting argument for not texting while working (and he differentiates between being at work and working).
For the sake of productivity and competition:
You’re competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.
You can’t merely wing it and expect to keep up with them. Setting aside all the safety valves and pleasant distractions is the first way to send yourself the message that you’re playing for keeps.
After all, if you sit for an hour and do exactly nothing, not one thing, you’ll be ashamed of yourself. But if you waste that hour updating, pinging, being pinged and crunching, well, hey, at least you stayed in touch.
Raise the stakes.
I see. I think I’ll continue to text while I’m working, thank you. It’s part of my job. Seriously.
That’s what she gets. Sorry. That’s how I see it.
I received an email from the Seminary that I currently attend in light of the recent attacks on University of Texas by a gunman and I thought it would be worth sharing and encouraging organizations to get an emergency SMS service!
It can help quell panic and give people the comfort and information they most desperately need during a difficult time. There are a lot of great options out there for text messaging systems, and here’s just one that we’ve covered here on ChurchDrop as well as another that DTS uses.
I’m glad my seminary does this and I’m already signed up.
Now here’s a neat and potentially very useful idea: What if you needed instant and real-time notifications about some event or some other thing happening?
You’d like to be notified as soon as they happen, right? Perhaps Notifo can help with that.
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