TOLD YOU SO!

Attention Lit Loungers, beloved children of your humble blogger, and everyone else attached to his or her cell phone: TEXTING COULD BE HARMFUL TO YOUR HEALTH! I've already amended my syllabi to show concern for your well being. Read this before you text:

American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Company — almost 80 messages a day, more than double the average of a year earlier.

The phenomenon is beginning to worry physicians and psychologists, who say it is leading to anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation.