Comments on: Average Teen Sends 3,339 Texts Per Month

By: yitzyy

yitzyy — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:05:07 +0000

@ #1: first of all, I hope that I you write like that you can say that you yourself do not own a phone….
Can you perhaps point me in the direction of the “hard-core evidence of the damage” caused by cell phones, either morally OR spiritually? Besides, anything that is misused will have negative effects, EVERYTHING, from Torah to deodorant. Should we therefore get rid of it all? Or should we encourage it, but used properly?
How is the lack of ‘focus and undivided attention’ caused by cellphones different that the distraction caused by anything else? Cellphones don’t CAUSE people to be distracted, they allow people who will be distracted to have another item that will distract them. People, not phones, are rude when someone answers a phone call in middle of a conversation. (Guns don’t kill people etc)

By: AvodasChesedOutofTwn

AvodasChesedOutofTwn — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:53:15 +0000

Dear YWNews- thank you far all your good reporting, but PLEASE change the image above, which shows someone texting behind the wheel. Please don’t do ANYTHING that could possibly be mistaken to consider texting & driving as common or acceptable behavior.

By: jewishflorida

jewishflorida — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:54:15 +0000

What annoys me most of all, more than anything else, is the usage of the cell phone in shuls and the beis medrash. We all know that everyone from least observant to ultra-frum has answered or thought of his/her phone durring davening. Especially durring shmoneh esrei. The vibrate distracts all of our davening.
Eretz Yisroel needs our complete focus durring teffilah.

By: ralphz

ralphz — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:17:52 +0000

IT is not only teenagers , but adults as well! During daving , on line @ the supermarket , walking down the street , in middle of a conversation w/ someone , DRIVING !!! There is no Kovod Habreous !

By: TeachersNotebook

TeachersNotebook — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:15:05 +0000

I don’t get what’s so “eye-popping” about this. I’m in the 18-24 age group, and these numbers seem only a little higher than normal. If you counted phone conversations and person-to-person conversations before cell phones evolved, would those numbers also have been eye-popping? One text = one side of a conversation. To have a complete conversation, you need a few of them…

By: shuali

shuali — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:07:26 +0000

Tzvei mohl tzvelif is nisht fihr und tzvantzik. V’hamaivin yovin. HaShem yerachaim. Ignore all the hard-core evidence of the damage, morally and spiritually (pardon the redundancy), caused by misuse/overuse of these devises, but the lack of focus and undivided attention they cause should be enough of a reason to discourage their use in our crowds. Even if we choose secular endeavors and lifestyle over a Torah-based one, has success in any area been achieved without single minded focus and commitment? Nobody can have a meaningful conversation anymore without countless interruptions. Forget the derech eretz issue. It is self destructive as well.