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UNPROTECTED TEXT CAN KILL YOU.

Everywhere you look, people are having text. Some even share text with people they do not know, or folks they haven't even met. You can see them in online chat rooms. "Give me your number. Text me, and I'll text you back," they say.

Do they not realize what is going on here?

Perhaps we need to develop safe text strategies.

GOT SAFE TEXT?

Here are a few suggestions for safe text, particularly when traveling.

First, friends don't let friends drive while texting. As a result, folks might develop textual relationships with others, simply to employ them as designated drivers, so they could have text on the road.

Maybe rules could be developed, so that drivers could pull over and park, when they wanted to have text.

Having text during flight on airlines is already banned, for obvious reasons.

TEXTUAL ETIQUETTE

Having text with one person, while one is on a date with another, is considered bad form. In fact, it may rule out text for the rest of the night.

Texting is simple, so a person need not ask another to perform texts for him or her. Such textual favors are unnecessary.

Texting should be considered private and personal, not an activity to be closely observed by others. What happens between the screens is nobody's business, right?

Movies, music, television programs and other media probably ought to carry parental advisory messages, if inappropriate textual messages or images appear or are mentioned in them.

OTHER TEXTUAL CONCERNS

Folks who cannot control their textual urges might be counseled to enter textual addiction therapy.

Those who cannot master the skill required for effective texting might have textual dysfunction.

Certainly, something must be done. Texting is reaching epidemic proportions. In fact, it might be called a textually transmitted disease. What's the cure, phone-acillin?

Learn more about this author, Linda Ann Nickerson.
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