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How often do you find yourself wondering if you may have simply misunderstood the context or meaning of a text message?


Most people are pretty adept at transmitting factual information – names, dates, numbers – to one another. But how about your feelings, wishes, understanding, concerns and decisions? That’s when things get messy.

Subjective emotions are full of gray areas, a fogginess generated by expectations, resentments, assumptions, jargon and past experience. We bring all of these elements to our communication with others.

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My husband and I text more than we have ever spoken. To date, we have spent more time apart than together.

When I think about talking to him, the first thing I do is reach for my phone. It is not to call him, but to send him a text.

Our relationship has been a little unconventional. We were together a year before he decided to join the military. Originally, we wrote letters when he was in basic training, then it progressed to text messages.

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Texting has been around for over 20 years, but it is only now just hitting its stride when it comes to business. Formerly just a way to send silly photos and emoticons (and to some extent, it still is), text messaging is now being viewed as a powerful way for businesses to connect with their customers.

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Do not speak whale? No worries: A new text messaging service will ping you when whales are in the frame of live cams positioned in British Columbia's Johnstone Strait, so that one does not miss awesome moments like this whale waving hello during a sunrise.

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This group of scientists has found that simple, small tweaks to existing official messaging can create huge effects on everything from savings to sustainability to fraud.

Governments around the world are increasingly getting interested in how insights from psychology can make policy more effective. As an NPR Ed intern last year, I wrote about a proposal to use text messages to nudge students to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

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Tinder and other dating apps like to focus on how digital romances begin. But a study by Pew Research Center shows that more teen daters are using their phones to end relationships than scout for new romantic possibilities.

Almost 30% of teenagers have broken up or been broken up with over text message.

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Sports are an enormously popular pastime; recreational sports constitute a huge proportion of participation in sports. And yet, likely due to the lack of attention placed on sports at the recreational level, injuries in community level sports garner little attention. More importantly, injuries from recreational sports often go unreported, creating a large gap in the store of information available on sports-related injuries.

This may not seem like a significant issue, but it represents a large problem for the field of sports medicine research. Researchers lack information on a large proportion of participants in sports, skewing the tendencies of their data towards more elite levels of sports participation, which may produce different figures.

Texting Wounds: Is SMS the Future of Sports Medicine Research?

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NotePager Pro Version 5 has been released!
NotePager Pro version 5 contains a variety of new features to send text messages, including calendar based message scheduling, advanced cellular modem support and a host of other features which you can read about at https://www.notepage.net/notepager-pro-v5-whats-new.htm

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Active 911
Active911 is a digital messaging system that delivers alarms, maps, and other critical information instantly to first responders. Active911 also allows response efforts to be monitored in real time.
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My Big Fat Greece Vacation Phone Bill: How To Travel With Your Phone
While using your phone outside of the country is likely to cost you a little more than usual, you should not be afraid of taking your phone with you on your travels. Before shooting that MMS with the view from your hotel room, though, you should do a little research to make sure you are not in over your head.
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R U Ready to Fight Ebola? How Texting Has Combatted the Ebola Outbreak
Though Western panic about the 2014 Ebola outbreak has largely calmed down, the epidemic remains a deadly reality in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. One surprising, and surprisingly effective, agent of these efforts is, yes, texting.
https://www.notepage.net/learning-center/r-u-ready-to-fight-ebola.htm


Text Me to Church: How SMS Helps Religion
We do not too often think of technological development in the realm of religion, a word that calls to mind community gatherings and places of worship that long predate modern technology. But the fact of the matter is, when it comes to SMS technology, everyone is finding ways to advance the things that are important to them, and religion makes no exception.
https://www.notepage.net/learning-center/text-me-to-church.htm


Lets Talk About Sex: How Cell Phones Are Changing the Face of Sex Education
Love it or hate it, sexual health education in the U.S. experiences a dearth of funding and valid information, and people are fighting back.
https://www.notepage.net/learning-center/how-cell-phones-are-changing-the-face-of-sex-ed.htm


Apple Farmers: How SMS and Mobile Technology Are Shaping Farming
Texting is only beginning to make its impact on the world of farming. While promising advances have been made, many of these devices and processes are in limited use, or are still being tested and improved. Who knows how SMS technology will change the face of agriculture as more and more developments are made in the coming years? We can not wait to find out.
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exting patients regular reminders to do things like eat right, exercise more and smoke less may help them make lifestyle changes linked to a lower risk of heart attacks and strokes, an Australian study suggests.

Researchers sent four texts a week to about 350 people with heart disease to supplement their regular care with reminders designed to encourage healthier habits. Another group of about 350 patients stuck with their usual care routines but did not receive texts.

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Texting Your Way To College

The first example dealt with the problem of high schoolers who have been accepted to college, but don't show up in the fall Ȓ a well-documented phenomenon known as summer melt.

To tackle this, the researchers placed 4,882 students into different groups. One group of students received personalized text messages with friendly reminders and simple instructions to finish tasks, like filling out necessary forms, over the summer. The control group got none.

When the researchers followed up with the participants in the fall, they found that college enrollment among low-income students in the text-message group had jumped by 8.6 percent compared with the control group.

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Text messaging has been around since 1985, but the history of messaging is much more complex. For centuries, the fastest way to communicate was through smoke signals, which could relay messages for hundreds of miles. Only until the late 1800s did the Pony Express make delivery of messages by horse economical. With the development of the telegraph, messaging became digital and technology improved from there.

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A simple, low-cost automated program of semi-personalized mobile phone text messages supporting lifestyle change led to improvement in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels, blood pressure, body mass index, and smoking status in patients with coronary heart disease, according to the study.

Mobile phone text messages to remind, encourage, and motivate patients regarding the adoption of healthy lifestyles might be useful, but there has been limited scientific evaluation of these interventions, according to background information in the article.

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An Australian research proved text message reminders and mobile apps help in encouraging people to adopt healthier habits.

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Facing some of Americas biggest education challenges, Benjamin Castleman thinks small. In his new book, The 160-Character Solution: How Text Messaging and Other Behavioral Strategies Can Improve Education, the University of Virginia education professor argues that the humble text message can boost student achievement, improve study habits, and help students stay on track in the transition from high school to college.

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Lets face it: weight loss is not only an enormous preoccupation in American minds, but an enormous investment of American time and money. With about half of American adults trying to lose weight and an estimated 65 billion dollars being spent each year by Americans on weight loss-related products and services, there simply has to be a better way. And, studies suggest, there is.

Text Messaging Can Help Weight Loss, Study Says

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