I feel the need to insert a small disclaimer here, what you’re about to read, you can never erase from your mind.  Even worse, once you know, you’re just dying to tell other people despite that you wish you’d never found out in the first place.  As it turns out, senior citizens sexting is on the rise.  This knowledge is brought to you by AARP.  Who have some very blunt interviews with some elderly men and women that enjoy talking dirty and even sending their texts along with photographic proof.

AARP was even kind enough to offer up advice for those that would like to send out sexy texts of their own.  Giving out starter phrases to help them along and letting senior citizens know that they should delete their texts on occasion, just in case.  You can go to the AARP website and find out exactly what Grandpa has been up to when he’s out on those oh so innocent dates.

Source:TechRadar

We’ve all on occasion caught a city paid driver texting away as they weave in and out of traffic.  It’s enough to make most people sweat bullets as you just barely miss the bumper of several vehicles.  Not to mention when the driver almost plows into the side of a vehicle that cuts you off, purely because they’re looking more at their phone than they are the road.  Well one person actually got a picture of a bus driver texting as they are driving through busy traffic.

The New York city bus driver allegedly sent three different text messages while in the heavy traffic.  Recently a texting ban was set in place within the city.  Which means the bus driver is likely going to be in a bit of trouble.  The bus driver has remained nameless so far, but I’m glad to see at least one driver get busted for this.  Especially since it’s a driver with more than just a couple of passengers.  Honestly, it’s been said before that texting while driving slows your reaction time even more than driving after you’ve been drinking.  Yet still people try to do it, clearly they’re high functioning texters, so it’s impossible for them to rear end anyone while they’re texting.

Source: Switched

Craigslist is great for finding cheap furniture and getting rid of things that are cluttering up your garage.  However, it’s also notorious for its strange sex related ads posted by different people.  This ad actually targeted a 9 year old girl, who supposedly got into an argument with Margery Tannenbaum’s daughter.  Margery is accused of posting a sex ad and giving out the little girl’s phone number.  The 40 year old woman is actually a social worker who is now, obviously, going to have her social worker’s license re-evaluated.

People did actually call the number too, causing quite a bit of distress for the poor girl’s mother.  The Long Island social worker is no longer going to be the 4th grade classroom mother at her daughter’s school either.  She is facing charges of aggravated harassment and endangering the welfare of a child.  After even being accused of such a thing, it’s unlikely that the woman will ever be allowed to work with children ever again.  You would think that people would start to get a touch smarter about the things they post on the internet, but unfortunately that’s not the case.

Source: Switched

Everyone has their ways to deal with those long flights, a lot of us are on our laptops or other electronic devices as soon as it’s allowed in the plane.  Well it turns out that the passengers aren’t the only ones enjoying their technology just a little too much.  Two pilots were on a Northwest Airlines flight headed to Minneapolis, MN.  They decided to mess with their laptops a bit while they were flying the plane.  That seems like it wouldn’t be too bad, as long as it was put away quickly at the right moment.   Instead the pilots actually managed to overshoot the landing strip by 150 miles and were out of touch for over an hour.

The National Guard jets were actually ready for take off when the problem was solved.  The pilots were each on their own laptops and talking about airline crew flight scheduling procedure.  Even taking their personal laptops into the cockpit is a violation of airline policy.  That alone was enough to get them into trouble, not to mention actually overshooting their destination.  The pilots are now suspended for the whole affair.

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Hulu has brought our TV shows to the internet and made it much easier to watch TV whenever you feel like it.  If you miss a couple weeks of your favorite show, it’ll probably still be there waiting for you.  Yes, you do have to deal with ads and there’s no way to fast forward through them, but you still get to watch TV for free at your convenience.  It made everyone happy, Hulu gets money through their ads and people get their internet TV.  Well, Hulu has officially gotten a touch more greedy and have marked the beginning of the end.  It was fun while it lasted.

One overpaid TV executive has stated that,“It’s time to start getting paid for broadcast content online.” He also went on to say that, “I think what we need to do is deliver that content to consumers in a way where they will appreciate the value.”  Tragically Hulu has agreed.  There is no official date that they’re going to start charging for their services, so that we consumers can “appreciate the value”.  However, it’s said that this is probably going to happen sometime within 2010.  When this comes to pass, I imagine there will suddenly be a mysterious spike in piracy.

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If one were creating a top ten list of things not to do, this would at least be in the top five.  Texting while driving is an act that even if it’s still legal in your state, it’s heavily frowned upon.  Even though it’s not illegal now, it just seems as if it’s going to become that way sometime in the somewhat near future.  Basically texting while driving is just asking for trouble.  Then if you manage to hit someone while you’re texting, you can bet that you’re going to get even more trouble.  If you somehow make things even worse and hit a cop car, you get to a whole new level of stupid.  Someone did actually manage to do exactly that.  In their defense though, I’m sure it’s quite difficult to notice a car with bright blue flashing lights.

David Mercer admitted that he was texting and didn’t see the idling cop car that had been parked to divert traffic around a car accident.  Luckily, the cop car was actually empty, so no one was actually physically injured.  Luckily for him, he lives in Rhode Island where it’s still technically not illegal.  There it’s still stupid, just not illegal.  He was cited with “failure to maintain control of his vehicle, obedience to devices, and no insurance”.  Sadly, there was no citation for just being a moron.  They really should work on that one, they could call it the Mercer citation.

Source: Switched

It turns out there are more things to worry about on Facebook than just posting a not so well thought out status.  No, now you need to worry about who you poke.  Should anyone have a restraining order on you, poking them is not the best idea.  Shockingly, it can actually land you in jail.  One woman, Shannon Jackson of Tennessee, learned that the hard way.  She was not allowed to telephone, contact, or otherwise communicate with the petitioner.  It turns out, poking counts as contacting.

I suppose it does make perfect sense that would count as contacting.  However, it still can be somewhat shocking when you realize just how much of an effect the virtual world has on the real world.  Virtual poking for one woman turned out to be a misdemeanor.  One that is punishable by up to 11 months and 29 days in jail along with a $2500.  It is a touch on the odd side that the petitioner didn’t block the person they filed the restraining order against.  It seems like that would be the first thing I’d do after filing a restraining order.  Either way though, it’s definitely a new and interesting way to violate a restraining order.

Source: Neatorama

Halloween is always a fun time of year, but it does tend to draw out some strange events you’d never expect.  One of which is a Twittering psychic who will be contacting some famous dead celebrities just for your amusement.  Of course to choose which celebrities they’re leaving that up to you.  Just put in your vote and the highest voted four will be contacted.  You can see in the picture a few of the ones that have been nominated so far.  I imagine that Michael Jackson will stay in the top four considering how recently he died.

When will they be Twittering about the dead celebrities?  Well October 30th of course.  She chose to do her interviews between 10 in the morning and 12pm on that day.  It also just happens that Tweance is promoting a costume store in the UK called Spooky, which I imagine will benefit greatly from the charming readings.  The readings that I’m sure will be incredibly accurate and shocking.  You can check out their feed on Twitter and keep an eye on all the celebrities that manage to get nominated.  If you decide to nominate someone, you also get to include your question.

Source: Switched

That’s right, the next time you see a teen looking incredibly Emo and wonder where we went wrong, now you’ll know.  Teens that become addicted to the internet may make them not only ADHD, but depressed on top of it.  Which is just a stellar combination.  They can’t pay attention and they have the squirly desire to cut themselves.  Meaning we might end up with a whole lot of teens that forget to pay attention while cutting and miss their wrist and manage to lob off a pinky.

This latest survey was conducted on 2,298 seventh grade students in Taiwan.  Out of those 10.8 percent had developed an internet addiction.  The researchers then actually followed those children for two years and found that ADHD and hostility were linked to internet addictions.  In girls specifically there was a tendency to have a social phobia and depression, which actually enhanced their addiction to the net even more.  Although boys are actually more likely to get addicted than girls.  It’s always hard to believe all of these surveys that claim to have found groundbreaking information, but there’s no doubt that the internet when used too much can cause some problems.  Whether or not it’ll cause sad little fingerless teens that bounce off the walls, I suppose we’ll never truly know.

Source: ChipChick

For those of you that are big time into scary movies, you might find that you’re slowly getting numb to all that gore.  After a while, many of us have become a little more difficult to really scare.  Well now filmmakers might be resorting to slightly more scientific methods to make you scream like a little girl.  It’s something that one British producer, Peter Katz, has already tested out for their upcoming film ‘Pop Skull’.  They enlisted Mindsign Neuromarketing to perform a brain scan on someone as they watched the movies, to give them an idea as to when she became more scared.

As many would have already guessed, the viewer was just as scared while watching the scene leading up to that horrific moment in the movie as she was of the scary scene itself.  Although it’s nothing shocking or groundbreaking, perhaps these scans will allow for producers to discover when their movie is such crap that it wouldn’t scare a 6 year old.  I doubt it though.  As a whole, it might perfect the art of horror movies, although maybe not for this year’s round of movies released for Halloween.

Source: Switched