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This morning I talked with Bradley and Jack from KMVT's Rise and Shine about texting. While we agreed that text messages were great, we thought that messages get taken the wrong way. Jack even suggested that maybe we should go back to calling people so that our messages aren't taken the wrong way.

You may want to be careful who you call back. There is a scam happening in Twin Falls and surrounding cities were your cellphone will ring, and a phone number appears. Before you can answer it, the call hangs up. Here's where the scam gets you - when you call back, it almost sounds like someone has dialed you on accident.

There are only certain things that I will hold my breath for if I can't find them: my car keys, my sons shoes, my wallet and the biggest thing...my phone. I find myself giving an actual sigh of relief when I find it. Don't laugh and pretend you don't so this too...

Here are eight  things that we all pretty much do wrong, according to a discussion yesterday on Reddit.com

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.

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

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.

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 perfec

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.

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 househol