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Being a teenager is a perilous time in one's life as a not-quite fully developed brain will cause the teen to make all kinds of questionable decisions. Now thanks to a new phenomenon called sleep-texting, the teenager can even make these bad decisions while they are catching z's.

Although it became a widely used form of communication only recently, texting is actually a decades-old technology. In fact, it celebrated its 20th birthday on Monday, which makes it older than most of the kids who use it. OMG!

Short Message Service, better known as "Texting," turned 20 years old Monday and as far as I'm concerned it's still as annoying as ever.

I love texting. In fact, I would much rather text than make a phone call. Now with my iPhone I can send messages a dozen different ways without ever talking on the phone, and that's the problem: mobile phones have stripped away the emotion and context of our social interaction.

(KLIX)- Come July first a new state law will go into effect banning texting while driving. The state legislature passed the measure in its last session. The new law only bans texting or entering data into a mobile device, it doesn’t prohibit talking on your phone...

Teens with smartphones, texting is making us dumb, and a 100 year old is going to ride the zip line across the canyon. Aside from his own personal quest to take down cell phones, here's what Terry was talking about last week.

There is nothing that makes me crazier than getting a text message from an adult that looks like HTML code exploded on it: "OMG R U GNG 2 movies W US 2NITE?"And that was from a 34 year old. The text messages from teenagers are almost incomprehensible. Before smartphones you only had 140 characters to get your message across and that led to a whole language of abbreviations like "OMG

I have to admit that this sounds made up, but doctors are backing it. According to MSNBC, some doctors say they're seeing more and more cases of sleep texting.

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 Response Using Abbreviations Do any of these things annoy you or do you use them on a d

It's one thing when teenagers say they prefer text messages to phone calls.  They're teenagers.  They're supposed to say things like that.  But now, in a bad, bad sign for the future of phone calls we older, more mature adults are saying that we would rather text too.

Based on all of the fight videos we see on YouTube, it seems like people these days don't whip out their phones to call the cops when they see a CRIME going down . . . they RECORD it.  In Chicago, people can now do both.  Chicago has become the first U.S. city where residents can text photos or videos of crimes to 911.  Those files go to the police's crime prevention info center, then get forwarde

Just as a YouTube meme seems safely dead and buried — interviews with their stars on morning talk shows are usually a sign of impending doom — the power of auto-tune comes along. Today, the magic of auto-tune has touched the infamous "mall fall" video — and the catchy slow-jam "Fell in the Fountain" is born...