Perils of "chexting" hit spotlight

[The Straight Story]

Perils of "chexting" hit spotlight

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – You might like texting, frown upon sexting, but now comes "chexting" -- and it can lead to big trouble. Just ask Tiger Woods and Jesse James.

Golf superstar Woods and TV celebrity James, who is married to Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock, have seen their lives unravel amid revelations of cheating on their spouses, in part by arranging liaisons via text messages.

Their affairs have spawned a new word in pop culture, chexting, and raised the question of whether it really is cheating on a spouse. The experts say, you bet it is.

"It's lipstick on the cellular -- digital proof that becomes evidence you've been unfaithful," says Peter Dedman of Predicto Mobile, the largest paid mobile community in America.

In today's digital age, where cell phones come equipped with their own typing keyboards separate from the number pads, texting has become more popular than e-mailing for some, and sending a text from a small phone can be done almost anywhere.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100401/od_nm/us_chexting_odd

[apples and oranges]

1. word play fail

I thought chexting would mean texting checks or something.

[damyank913]

2. I thought it was virtual consumption of a breakfast cereal.

[seabeyond]

3. bah hahah. and i thought it pretty obvious. immediately. funny you.

chex mix anyone

[Speck Tater]

4. And setting up a lunch date will be "lexting", but a dinner date will be "dinexting".

And then there's the reminder to pick up the kids at school which will henceforth be known at "remindexting". And when a politician gets caught doing some shady "lobbyexiting" with a lobbyist it will be "lobbyextingate" all over again.