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Hanging Up On Someone? [POLL]

Jackie — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:59:21 +0000

Phone calls can come to an end in a variety of different ways. Some people say goodbye by saying, "I love you, thank you, talk to you soon, see you later", etc. Like most people I hate being hung up on, and I think that if you hang up before the other person is done speaking it is classified as hanging up on them.

Using Smiley Faces In Text Messages Severely Annoys Men

Jackie — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:35:14 +0000

Brendan Smialowski, Getty Images

I read an article last night about text messages and the top things women use in messages that annoy men. Here is a list of the top annoying things men receive in a text messages:

Smiley Faces
Multiple Exclamation Points
Winky Faces
Long Messages
Not Giving Enough Time For a

More Than One-Third of People Use Their iPad in the Bathroom

Jackie — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:28:37 +0000

Might want to run a quick sanitizing wipe over your friend's iPad next time you're at their house and want to mess around with it.

A new survey by Staples fromMashable found that 35% of iPad owners use it when they're on the toilet. They didn't find out how many people sanitize it afterward . . . but I'm guessing that number is somewhere close to ZERO.

A 15-Year-Old Shoots Her Dad With a Bow-and-Arrow For Taking Her Phone

Jackie — Fri, 27 May 2011 14:20:02 +0000

I am sure you remember being young and getting mad at your parents that you may have thought about hurting them. That doesn't mean that you would actually hurt them, right? This is not only always the case check out this crazy story from Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

On Wednesday night, in Tahuya, Washington, a man grounded his 15-year-old daughter and took away her cell phone. And she had a perfectly reasonable reaction . . . she SHOT HIM with a bow-and-arrow.

Four Ways Technology Is Destroying Our Lives

Jackie — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:03:25 +0000

Technology is great in a lot of ways, but it's also made us less healthy, since we all just sit around in front of our computers all day. Here are four more ways technology is destroying our lives.

#1.) Texting Can Kill You in More Ways Than One. Between 2001 and 2007, 16,000 people died from texting-while-driving-related accidents. But even texting while WALKING is dangerous.

Does Anyone Still Have a Landline?

Jackie — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:45:46 +0000

When it comes to the states with the most households that aren't using landlines anymore, numbers one and two are Arkansas and Mississippi.

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 35.2% of people ages 18 and older in Arkansas live in households that don't have a landline. For Mississippi, it's 35.1%.

The rest of the states where more than 30% of people are in non-landline households are: Texas, North Dakota, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon, Colorado, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.