In this age of social media, text messages, and instant emails, it might seem acceptable to turn down a job offer in a perfunctory manner.
Almost 60 percent of interruptions at work involve using communication and social tools, like email, social networks, text messaging, instant messaging or switching between different applications.
More than one-third of travelers also want to be able to book ground transportation via mobile, and nearly as many would like to use their mobile devices to share flight information easily via social media, text and e-mail, the survey found.
Thanks to social media websites and cell phones brimming with text messages, teens' social lives are increasingly hectic as well.
Consider the withering hailstorm of mail, text, social net and blog posts that assaults you the moment you go online.
Today's generation is far more proficient at text messages, social media and online video.
When it comes to socializing through technology, young people are more interested in communication through text messages and social media.
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Welcome to the end of private conversations, because increasingly your conversations are conducted by e-mail, text, or social networking sites.
One of the markers of the digital age is the proliferation of handy electronic connecting tools, like email, text messaging and social media platforms.
Twitter - the social messaging network - or text or email is a fine way to spread the gift of prayer, Cardinal Sean Brady said.
So far, promotional campaigns that rely on SMS text messaging or social media tend to gain more traction with consumers than any other mobile marketing strategy.
On the Internet, and especially in e-mails, text messages, social network postings and online photos, the work lives and personal lives of Americans are inextricably mixed.
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Bobby Kotick, CEO of "Call of Duty" publisher Activision, says console games can be as integral to young people's social lives as Facebook and text messaging.
Progress marches ever onward with 62 percent of couples planning to also spread the schmaltz via text message or social media, according to a survey conducted by American Express.
The phone's hardware isn't as impressive as Samsung's, but the software is easy to use, and it's based on a strong idea: taking the pain out of communicating across email, text messaging and social networks.
"Small languages are using social media, YouTube, text messaging and various technologies to expand their voice and expand their presence, " said K David Harrison, an associate professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College and a National Geographic Fellow.
Steubenville High School students Trent Mays and Ma'Lik Richmond were sentenced to at least a year in juvenile jail, capping a case that came to light via a barrage of morning-after text messages, social media posts and online photos and video.
But today, whenever there is an unanticipated short silence -- cell service goes temporarily dead, e-mail or text messaging or social networks cease to function because of an electronic burp somewhere -- it gives us the occasion to reflect upon how quickly we have gotten used to the new way, with our messages coming in and going out continually and seamlessly, day and night.
Muslims use their gadgets in much the same way as everyone else: they text, they use social networks, they buy online.
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They're also days when thieves get to work setting up pleas for money via social media, phone calls and text, said Ken Berger, president and CEO of CharityNavigator.org, which monitors scams after disasters, offers advice on giving and rates nonprofits of all kinds.
He can address a joint session of Congress, as Obama will on Tuesday night, and every paragraph, if not every sentence, will be dissected in real time by people serving as a global jury, rendering second-by-second judgments on social networking sites and cell phone text-message screens.
The Lamar County School Board in Missouri recently implemented a policy forbidding teachers and students from having any text-message conversations or social-networking friendships.
They text, IM, do social messaging, and multitask.
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Cynics may ask how a social network for two differs from simply sending text messages back and forth.
Special lessons over a three week period will focus on how text, e-mail and social networking sites target vulnerable youngsters.
Formerly, coaches were restricted to a single phone call per month, and there were even stiffer limits on text messages and private contact on social media platforms.
Another possible reason people seek to share these types of experiences is that as technology disconnects people -- with social networking sites, e-mail, text and instant message replacing face time -- those with common interests look for opportunities to be together, Yarrow said.
The aspiration of the company is to build a series of technologies that encompasses an electronic monitoring and alert engine for activity that occurs not only on its own e-mail servers, but also on third party solutions including AOL, Yahoo, Gmail and text messaging, and eventually on social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, too.
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