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Texting while driving? Time to unplug
Submitted by Benton Foundation on April 18, 2008 - 7:31am
Source: Reuters
Author: Jill Serjeant
TEXTING WHILE DRIVING? TIME TO UNPLUG
Sharon Sarmiento knew it was time to unplug when she realized she was blogging in her dreams and hearing imaginary instant messages. For Ariel Meadow Stallings, it was the hours lost while surfing the Internet that left her feeling like she had been in a drunken blackout. Both women are part of a new grass-roots movement in which tech geeks, Internet addicts, Blackberry thumbers and compulsive IMers are deciding to wrest back control of their lives by daring to switch off -- if only for a day.
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1039047820080418
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