Text messages have gotten out of hand are used by youth and adults for personal, family and social purposes and in business.
Yes, it seems someone always has a phone in their hand, everywhere you go!
Today, text messages may be sent over a cellular network, or may also be sent via an Internet connection. This allows for messaging through a computer as well. It is crazy. 
Yes, it really has made interaction to become so impersonal!
Yes it has. No direct communication anymore with most people. It is also causing a lot of relationship issues between couples.
Oh, I can see that! When there is a constant text dinging, it often makes the significant other worry that it's the wrong kind texting!
Texting while driving has become another major problem and is considered extremely dangerous by many people, including authorities, and in some places have either been outlawed or restricted.
Yes, I know where I live that one can be arrested if they have a traffic accident and the police are suspicious of texting while driving. They will check their phone records and arrest them if they were texting at the time of the accident.
Distracted driving
Distracted driving refers to the act of driving while engaging in other activities which distract the driver's attention away from the road. Distractions are shown to compromise the safety of the driver, passengers, pedestrians, and people in other vehicles.
Cell phone use while behind the wheel is one of the common forms of distracted driving. According to the United States Department of Transportation, "texting while driving creates a crash risk 23 times higher than driving while not distracted." Studies and polls regularly find that over
Text messaging
Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile devices, desktops/laptops, or other type of compatible computer. Text messages may be sent over a cellular network, or may also be sent via an Internet connection.
The term originally referred to messages sent using the Short Message Service (SMS). It has grown beyond alphanumeric text to include multimedia messages (known as MMS)