Anyone who keeps up with current events has probably heard about the commuter train wreck, but they may have failed to realize that the train engineer was under the influence of texting. This incident has provoked California lawmakers to start seeking a ban on text-messaging by drivers, a step already taken by a handful of other states. Statistics have shown an alarming increase in the amount people have been texting. This year in June 75 billion text messages were sent in the United States, compared with only 7.2 billion in June 2005, according to CTIA. Even emergency room doctors have noticed a rise in injuries and deaths stemming from texting. Texting has created a new communication phenomenon, which is dangerous to the multi-tasker. If we don’t start cleaning up our texting act then laws will be brought in to force us to do so.
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