Texting

Facebook’s psychic texting feature an invasion of privacy and exploits user data for profit

Esdras Lopez/ Contributing Writer As one of the most popular platforms for social media, Facebook has undoubtedly changed the landscape of the internet. Now, Facebook wants to lead a technological revolution of another kind with an upcoming psychic texting feature, an extraordinary feat of engineering with a laughably pointless market application if it weren’t so […]

There’s an app for that

Angel Banegas / Contributing Artist opinion@fiusm.com

Moving from the touch screen to the touching your arm…literally.

  Michelle Marchante / Contributing Writer Who needs a phone? That seems like an odd type of question to ask. While it’s true that technically, no one really needs a phone, it’s a product that is held dear by many, myself included. Cell phones are no longer just a useful technological device, but rather, an […]

Our cellphones disconnect us from reality

Photo by Adam Fagen via Flickr Yiana Ramaj | Contributing Writer opinion@fiusm.com In the fast growing world of new technologies, we have made many changes in the ways we live our lives. Family dinners have now become a fight against everyone’s smartphone, meeting your next lover is no longer at chance when meeting someone on […]

Text talk should give way to real talk

Staff writer Diego Saldaña-Rojas is concerned that people are replacing face-to-face conversations with text-talk.

Texting generation forms new language

Staff writer Lauren Bana gives her opinion on the new form of text language that has been developed by the texting generation.

Uncertainty as text ban nears

When Assistant Chief of FIU Police Alphonse Ianniello was asked if he saw any texting while driving around campus, he said he personally did not. However, students said they witness their peers texting and driving often. “I see people texting and driving all the time on campus,” said Roberto Lopez, junior computer science major.

Ineffective ban on texting while driving

Staff writer Lauren Bana thinks that the ban on texting while driving will turn out to be an ineffective solution to the problem.

Texting service unfamiliar within University

Maria Britos / Contributing writer When anyone has a concern or comment about transportation within the University, most students remain quiet or simply complain to their friends. What they don’t know, or haven’t heard of, is the Department of Parking and Transportation’s BusBuzz Text Connect service. Promoted on the buses and shuttles, this service is […]

Proposed legislation to ban texting while driving

Texting while driving has now become the new drunk driving, studies show.
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