{"id":998,"date":"2007-06-13T07:02:11","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T12:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/text-messaging-in-the-car\/"},"modified":"2007-06-13T07:02:11","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T12:02:11","slug":"text-messaging-in-the-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/text-messaging-in-the-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Text Messaging In The Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As in driving the car!<\/em>&nbsp; From Yahoo News&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20070606\/lf_nm\/texting_dc\" target=\"_blank\">Shd u txt, chat n drive? Young drivers say OK<\/a>&nbsp;(my emphasis):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A survey by the Zogby International polling firm released on Wednesday found <strong>66 percent of U.S. drivers aged between 18 and 24 send text messages while driving<\/strong> and 93 percent talk on their cell phone behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have no problems with people talking on their cell phone while driving, but text messaging?&nbsp; I may be too old to appreciate this ability, but I have a hard enough time text messaging on my phone when I am sitting in a restaurant undisturbed.<\/p>\n<p>Unbelievable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As in driving the car!&nbsp; From Yahoo News&#8217; Shd u txt, chat n drive? Young drivers say OK&nbsp;(my emphasis): A survey by the Zogby International polling firm released on Wednesday found 66 percent of U.S. drivers aged between 18 and 24 send text messages while driving and 93 percent talk on their cell phone behind the wheel. I have no problems with people talking on their cell phone while driving, but text messaging?&nbsp; I may be too old to appreciate this ability, but I have a hard enough time text messaging on my phone when I am sitting in a restaurant undisturbed. Unbelievable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-g6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":817,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/the-dawn-of-corporate-text-messaging\/","url_meta":{"origin":998,"position":0},"title":"The Dawn Of Corporate Text Messaging","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We are gradually moving\u00a0towards instant messaging for our internal communications at Select Metrix and away from email.\u00a0 Speed is a big part of this move for us, but email spam is also driving the change.\u00a0 I have a difficult time imagining email disappearing all together, but this article from Inc.com\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1317,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/the-next-generation-is-more-connected\/","url_meta":{"origin":998,"position":1},"title":"The Next Generation Is MORE Connected","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"And you thought Gen Y was the gadget-driven, totally connect generation.\u00a0 I was utterly shocked by this Online Media Daily story: The Nielsen Co. released the findings of an in-depth study on the mobile media and cross-media behavior of U.S. \"tweens\" (ages 8-12). 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