There is nothing wrong with kids having cell phones. Especially in the day and age of family plans. It''s not expensive, and I would much rather a child be able to get a hold of someone or call for help then to not be able to do so. Some of you need toget off your high horse. The old days are over, and they aren''t ever coming back no matter how much you complain about kids today playing video games, texting, talking on the phone, ehatever it may be. The simple fact is you would be doing those things too if you were a child growing up in the modern world.
The reason TXT messaging is so popular with teenagers is because it''s like CHAT but can''t be screened. And, the evidence can be deleted right away. Also, being portable, teens don''t have to wait until they get home to ''be in touch.'' The only cell phone my kids will ever have until they become 18 and have their own contract and pay their own bills is one of those types that has mom and dad''s numbers programmed and then 911. That is all.
I recently read a critic going on about the poor language used by young people - and how the English language was on the road to hell. The article was written in 1891 and seemed to mark the end of English as we knew then.
Our language will endure and evolve. Relax naysayers...
cbsfan731 You make some very good points on this subject. The kids in our area had to rough it after Gustav and entertain themselves the old fashioned way. They discoved the outside world and had a blast. Now they are back to their old routines. It was nice to see the children enjoying chasing lighning bugs, visiting a neighbor, whom they never met before the storm, camping outside in a pup tent because it was cooler outside than inside and just riding their bikes around the neighborhood to have something to do other than play a video game or text their friends.
Well, on a positive note - at least the kids can read and write well enough to SEND a text.
Posted by DoodDad I disagree. "r u my bff" is a far cry from " are you my best friend forever". You know what I mean. They don''t use proper spelling, grammar, you name it. This generation is becoming a bunch of illiterate twits. Peace
Alot of us VETs are so tired of hearing abou the want-a -be POW McCacain. We all know POW''s that went throught it. All of his whinning is getting tiresome.I''m not sure that he really went through what he say''s he went through. I''m a independent so don''t start with the Lib stuff.
[There is a difference in the two men. Kerry is a cry-baby liberal that is against most kinds of freedoms that our troops have faught for..] [Posted by hbevis at 05:23 PM : Sep 23, 2008]
what freedoms are those? you mean jurisprudence, innocent until proven guilty, access to an attorney, trial of your peers, elected officials upholding the constitution and the rule of law, the geneva convention, not outing cia operatives, the right to privacy ...
did you mean those rights ... or were you speaking of the right to lie to congress and the american people, the right to wage war under false pretense, the right to torture, the right to wiretap, the right to spy on american citizens, the right to our cia agents who are married to your political critics?
Some things, like cell phones, are a great invention because now you can reach people that are away from home, especially in emergencies. Other things, like texting, make me sorry it was invented in the first place.
McCain was against regulation before he was for it.
No Kerry, in spite of being smeared by republican lies was a hero who saved lives and who saw the absurdity of Vietnam while McCain loved war and got shot down admittedly being a hot shot. I listened to his speech. Now he just lies about the economy and the qualifications of a dog wearing lipstick.
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Some of you need toget off your high horse. The old days are over, and they aren''t ever coming back no matter how much you complain about kids today playing video games, texting, talking on the phone, ehatever it may be. The simple fact is you would be doing those things too if you were a child growing up in the modern world.
Our language will endure and evolve. Relax naysayers...
You make some very good points on this subject. The kids in our area had to rough it after Gustav and entertain themselves the old fashioned way. They discoved the outside world and had a blast. Now they are back to their old routines. It was nice to see the children enjoying chasing lighning bugs, visiting a neighbor, whom they never met before the storm, camping outside in a pup tent because it was cooler outside than inside and just riding their bikes around the neighborhood to have something to do other than play a video game or text their friends.
Posted by DoodDad
I disagree. "r u my bff" is a far cry from " are you my best friend forever". You know what I mean. They don''t use proper spelling, grammar, you name it. This generation is becoming a bunch of illiterate twits.
Peace
[Posted by hbevis at 05:23 PM : Sep 23, 2008]
what freedoms are those? you mean jurisprudence, innocent until proven guilty, access to an attorney, trial of your peers, elected officials upholding the constitution and the rule of law, the geneva convention, not outing cia operatives, the right to privacy ...
did you mean those rights ... or were you speaking of the right to lie to congress and the american people, the right to wage war under false pretense, the right to torture, the right to wiretap, the right to spy on american citizens, the right to our cia agents who are married to your political critics?
No Kerry, in spite of being smeared by republican lies was a hero who saved lives and who saw the absurdity of Vietnam while McCain loved war and got shot down admittedly being a hot shot. I listened to his speech. Now he just lies about the economy and the qualifications of a dog wearing lipstick.