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texting
Typing a short message from one mobile phone user to another. See SMS and smexting.


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Recently we hear many debates regarding texting while driving The debates usually take place on the side of the road between the texters and the State Police Recently we hear many debates regarding texting while driving.
Spurred by unlimited texting plans, American teens sent and received an average of close to 2,300 texts per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Company--more than double the average of a year earlier.
There also have been some cases around the country of kidnap victims summoning help by surreptitiously texting friends or relatives, who then called 911, according to National Public Radio.
 
 
 
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