Are you in a "Text Trance"?

If you think about how often you spend a day texting on your phone the number might surprise you. I decided to keep track of this myself and I realized that I spend 2 hours on average of my day texting.

In this blog I am going to give some examples of why texting is starting to consume our society. Below is a video that gives a great example of how texting can consume our day to day habits. If you really think about how often you text, you also need to think about, what am I missing when I am stuck in my "text trance"? A text trance happens when you cannot focus on anything else besides your text message. How many times have you ever ran into someone or been listening to someone talk and know nothing they said because of texting?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPW8xmI4w6U

Although this example is quite funny, a lot of negative feedback from distracting texters that text and drive. The information below was found at aaafoundation.org under distracting drivers.

More than one million people have died in car crashes over the past 25 years in the U.S., with 33,788 lives lost in 2010 alone.

Drivers spend more than half their time behind the wheel engaged in distracted behavior.

Using a cell phone while driving quadruples your risk of crashing.

Not only can texting be dangerous to your health, but it can also can take away our natural instinct of analyzing our surroundings. People miss out on other people passing by, good deeds or chaos happening around them, as well as the natural environment that surrounds us. A lot of beautiful things are passed by without a glance while someones face is glued to the phone screen. Texting has began to consume our day to day lives. If you put the phone down and look around, you might find that you have been missing out on some important details about the world happening right in front of you. The one question I want to ask you is what have you been missing out on lately?