Thank goodness for texting, right? How else could that girl in the London Opening Ceremonies have found her phone if her friend didn’t have one too? And, of course, how could we have updated our Twitter/Facebook/Pinterest /calculator/refrigerator with our witty reaction to the enormous baby? However, read on to learn some downsides (gasp) of constant social connection.
Or maybe it’s more like a downside to crime is getting caught. Two young men in Florida discovered this after mugging two elderly women last April. Police had been investigating the case, and eventually acquired a warrant to search a suspect’s phone. According to New Times, its inbox contained poorly punctuated texts about the crime being on the news, and the suggestion to leave the state. Roflcopter and lmao.
