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Do you think the use of cell phones and text messaging
has diminished the quality of personal contact?

Texting is like crazy now. People drive texting, sit on the bus texting and it’s not only a youth thing. Many adults do it too.

 Levi Derring
Painter
Roxbury
Things change. Cell phones are becoming obsolete. Now you got Facebook. To me, it’s messing the youth up.

 Gregory Jordan
Student
Dorchester
I think it’s taken away from the opportunity to meet and talk personally. It decreases the importance of it.

 Justin Moore
Census Bureau Supervisor
Dorchester
What amazes me is the culture of my grandchildren. They’re in the living room texting each other. They’re not talking like we used to. I’ll try to start a conversation with them to bring them back to the ‘old fashioned’ way of talking by looking into each other’s eyes. That’s how we learned how to socialize.

 Fulani Haynes
Registered Nurse
Dorchester
It definitely does. Even though it takes longer, everyone thinks it’s quicker. The reality is that picking up a phone is actually quicker than texting, but for some reason people choose to text or e-mail.

 Cecilia Gaylor
Executive Research Coordinator
Boston
Yes. With cell phone contact you lose respect for those who you are in contact. Because you’re not willing to talk to them face to face.

 Michael Terry
Facilities Management
Mattapan
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May 18 18:50pm by TheTruth49 [98.217.189.159]

I was on a bus on Blue Hill Ave. heading to work when a woman got on with her daughter. She got on talking on her cell phone, paid her fare - still talking on her cell phone, continued a loud conversation on her cell phone except the part where she was talking about someone dating her daughter’s father; then back to loud talking on her cell phone. The only time she interacted with her daughter was when it was time to get off at Humboldt Ave. Then she went back to talking loud on her cell phone; got off the bus with her daughter AND she was still talking on her cell phone! What a missed opportunity to TALK to her daughter.