Although I’ve made it through almost 3 years of college without a TV in my room, I finally folded and bought a TV over Christmas break.   I have a pretty short attention span so I usually just flip through the channels looking for commercials.  A few nights ago, I saw the AT&T commercial which shows a grandma, mom, and 2 daughters (I think) playing Scrabble.   They don’t put down typical phrases but play tiles that spell out texting lingo, like ROTFL and things like that.  And the whole time that the girls are playing, they are all (except for the mom) texting on their cell phones.

This commercial made me smile, but it also made me realize how much texting and cell phones influence our day to day activities.  I recently took a weekend trip with my girls to Little Rock (we had a blast, of course!) and was amused by the dependence that we all had upon our cell phones.  Texting is probably the easiest form of communication…it’s quick, easy, and prevents you from having a twenty minute phone conversation when you really needed to ask one question.  Texting isn’t all cake though…how many times has someone walked smack into you at Wal-Mart because they were texting and not paying attention?  How many wrecks happen because a driver was busy texting and not watching the road?  Just something to think about….