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Time for the beach: Grab your sunscreen, sand-screen, and water-screen

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It’s just about summertime, and you know what that means — time for some fun in the sun, sand, and surf. An entire season filled with boogie boarding and beach babes … what’s not to love? The only thing to … Continue reading

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Parentheses, Periods, and Punctuation, Oh My

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In today’s world of constant instant messaging, we love texting, we love abbreviations, and we love emoticons. Everyone is familiar with the classic smileys made from a colon, hyphen, and parenthesis but these days, punctuation has evolved far beyond making … Continue reading

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Phone Etiquette – Rules We Should All Live By

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How often have you been in a quiet place, only to have the silence interrupted by a techno rendition of “We Are the Champions”? Or maybe you were in the checkout line at the grocery store and the person in … Continue reading

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Vibrating Tattoos Provide Phone Notification

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In an age where technology rules, how much weirder could it get? We have phones that speak back to us, those that can remind us of appointments and dates, and even phones that recognize our faces. But in the world … Continue reading

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Charge in Style: Phone Cords Now Come with Quirk

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Using our phones more and more often has become an inevitable trend. As phones become capable of more intricate tasks, the amount that we rely on our phones has greatly risen. But when logging all of those electronic hours, the … Continue reading

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The Evolution of Emoticons: From : ) to ☺

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Remember when users had to be creative with their emoticons? When parenthesis and those boxy lines that journalists sometimes use ( [ and ] ) were your best friends? Just by pairing said items with colons – both semi and … Continue reading

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Textonese: Language of the Young at Thumb

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In the age of taking notes by hand, students – especially those who aspired to become a secretary – were taught to take notes in what is known as shorthand. A list of seemingly unreadable symbols, this tactic helped speed … Continue reading

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Texting While Traveling: a Vacationer’s Nightmare

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For anyone who has ever traveled internationally, you know what a hassle it can be to try and get ahold of others. Whether it’s your fellow travelers you’re trying to reach, or you’re needing to check on the dog back … Continue reading

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Texting on the New iPad: What it Has to Offer

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It’s no doubt that the mode of texting has changed over the years. Not only how the act of writing a message is done, but the language that is sent. With the invention of smartphones, users are no longer limited … Continue reading

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The History of Texting: a Timeline

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Back in the dark ages of cell phones, there was no such thing as texting. Phones did exactly what one would expect: they send and received phone calls. Cameras were large, boxy contraptions that were just moving out of the … Continue reading

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