Reply #8: Brain info is a little vague.

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That texting stimulates the same brain centers as heroine and cocaine is a bit of guilt by association without knowing what their actual function is. They are not there just waiting to reinforce bad shit. What else stimulates them? Basketball? Rock and roll?

I don't like cell phones, and I don't own one. But I don't have to keep track of anybody. Students that have cell phones are likely to be on some family plan. There isn't always a choice. And some are unlikely to want to give up valuable features like cameras and internet.

Texting is good and it's bad. Before there were phone calls, there were "leaving notes for people." It eliminates real time coordination required of a conversation. It's a useful technology.

I think the studies need to be broader. Alterations in thinking and attention go beyond texting. It started with television.

--imm