How texting has changed and influenced our lives

Texting, in the last century has dramatically changed our social habbits. To expand, humans have always been trying to invent new ways to improve convenience and response times of socialising with people. So it's no surprise to me that in the 20th century we can instantly talk to someone by pushing a few buttons on a tiny hand held device we keep in our pockets.  Seems great...right?

  However, to me it seems that this has not improved our social lives at all. With 150billion texts sent in Britain each year (according to recent reports), there must be people in this day and age that never even see half of their contacts they've stored in their phone. I don't know about you but if I hardly ever met up with my friends or family face to face it would drive me crazy.

  Recent reports show that sms has declined in Britain from 39billion to 38billion. That does not mean lots of people have finally got off their lazy arses and decided to meet up for a coffee. I've noticed in the last year or so that the Blackberry is back in fashion, it's become much more than a businessmans fancy push email device and is now available with Blackberry Messenger so now the average layman can pick one up for about £25 a month and triple their sms rate to hundreds of messages a day. So, sms and Blackberry have killed real life and lured people in to a "better" virtual life where no one has a face, just a name.

 And just one last point, it's not just social lives being affected, it can take a life too. Texting whilst driving can not just kill you because you wern't concentrating it can take other people's lives to.