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Sex Drugs and Texting
statesman writes "The Associated Press reports that teens who text frequently are three and a half times more likely to have sex. A survey of 4,200 public high school students in the Cleveland area found that one in five students sent more than 120 text messages a day or spent more than 3 hours a day on Facebook. Students in this group were much more likely to have sex. Alcohol and drug use also correlate with frequent texting and heavy Facebook use."
Cell phones and social networks are gateway drugs!
I have got to learn how to text.
In soviet Russia, God creates you!
Hmmm, which mobile provider has sponsored this study? :)
Here's the secret to immortality:
...an article that acknowledges that causation != correlation? This is a first.
Alcohol and drug use also correlate with frequent texting and heavy Facebook use.
Isn't it really people who text and use Facebook for long periods of time need to drink and use drugs?
After watching a few episodes of Skins, it's obvious kids of today are out of control. Taking away their mobile phones should fix that right up.
Teen 1: So, you're tellin me that if I start texting a lot I'll get to have more sex?
Teen 2: Yep, that's what the article says.
Teen 1: AWESOME! *begins texting furiously*
Teen 2: Who are you texting??
Teen 1: Well, you, of course?
Teen 2: I'm flattered. Maybe you ought to go text yourself.
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
Yeah, because sex is just the worst possible thing you could ever do with your time.
I know every time I finish, I remark to my lady, "Well there's 3 minutes we'll never get back. Think of the bugs we could have fixed in open source software instead of this shameful, disgusting, awful, nasty thing we just did."
After looking at the federal debt, it's obvious the elderly of today have been out of control. Taking away their Social Security and Medicare should fix that right up.
it would make sense that women just want sex!
Stephen Fry?
Well, that accounts for your choice of user name.... ;)
"while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." de Tocqueville
but people who see me texting would think I was 3.5 times more likely to be getting some.
The way I hammer terminal commands into my N900, people must think I fuck like a rabbit.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
If marijuana were sold like lettuce, we'd have to listen to endless rants in the check-out line on how "organic" marijuana was better because it hadn't been sprayed with pesticides and doused with chemical fertilizers.
No good deed goes unpunished. - Avon, Blake's 7
When I was a kid, trouble was everywhere, and the cops were busy.
Get offa my bunk.
Well there's 3 minutes we'll never get back.
And the worst thing is, that 3 minutes includes 2 minutes of begging and pleading with his lady to put out...
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.