The alleged Chris Brown/ Rihanna fight started with a booty text - OK, a confusing hatred of women and a booty text. But who sent it? Some said it was Kim Kardashian, who liked Chris Brown because her bottom is large and dense enough to absorb most violent attacks. Some said it was Paris Hilton, bec...

The other day I had a chat with my teens about sexting. Sexting is the term used when teens send naked, or nearly naked, pictures of themselves to a significant other via picture messaging on their cell phones. My teens hadn’t heard of the term “sexting,” but they do know people wh...

Today I realised that the only thing more annoying to me are men that insist on sending text messages EVEN AFTER BEING TOLD THAT TEXT MESSAGES ARE NOT WELCOME are the ones that ask me to send them a picture.Today, for instance, I was walking along We...

i skipped english today. it wasn't planned. i woke up at like 7:20. hahahaha. my mom was going to have me go in like 15 minutes late, which is a guaranteed session (detention to those who are not familiar with our stupid words), but i convinced her i could get away with going in at 8:30 without gett...

Filed under: Cell Phones One of the newest weapons in the arsenal of stalkers is text messaging. Texting has two major perks for those hell-bent on harassment: the constant attachment folks have to their cell phones and the tendency of handsets to pester their owners until unopened messages are view...

Anyone in the world can update Twitter via SMS shortcode, but until today only US Tweeters could receive SMS messages on their mobile. Not anymore! After pulling the plug on outbound SMS for Canadian users in November of last year, Twitter is happy to welcome them back into the fold through a partne...

Filed under: Cell Phones digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/02/18/teen-arrested-for-texting-in-class-hides-cell-phone-in-butt/'; While it might have been a tad on the excessive side to call the police on a 14-year-old girl for texting during class, the teen in question certainly didn't help any...

  How the hell do you go from sitting in class, not paying attention to the teacher and typing a text message on your Cricket, to getting arrested? According to various local news reports out of Pennsylvania, you do it by being a total brat. The unnamed fourteen-year-old girl in question was as...

Problem: Texting has been banned between coaches and athletes by the NCAA since 2007. Solution: Twitter. I was working on something completely unrelated and it just occurred to me that Twitter would be a really powerful tool for recruiting scholarship athletes at major colleges. It might even be mor...

Filed under: Cell Phones, Computers Living in the connected age -- where things like Twitter and text messaging are an accepted part of life -- is great. We're able to pass information quickly across vast distances to large amounts of people. There is the inevitable downside, though; once you get th...