Besides the vibrations of phones and the tapping of fingers on small lighted keyboards, the car was dead silent on the way home from a party. My friends and I were packed into my father’s car and we were all communicating about the night’s biggest scandal via text. It was no secret to my dad that what we were texting about was for our eyes only. The next morning, I got a fat lecture on how texting made me center in on myself and friends instead of family.
It seems in the present day, the act of texting is inevitable when a cell phone is in the hands of a teen. It also seems that the number of aggravated parents is increasing as well. I constantly hear parents tell their teens that texting is an unnecessary and brain dead activity that they do just for the hell of it. The reaction that parents normally receive from their young texter is “You just don’t get it!” In most cases, this is the truth. The generation gap plays an important role in all of this misunderstanding between parents and their children.
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