The Relationship Tip

It seems like a problem all year round but the recession seems to have kicked it up a notch.

Roger Phelps at The Ledger-Dispatch:

As it emerges prominently in Amador, the obsessive use of text-message access to shower people with invasive questions, propositions, admonitions and even threats is hitting a tipping point elsewhere in the U.S.

Nevada’s pending legislation could make it the fourth western state to add text messaging to a legal definition of stalking. And, widespread textual harassment jumped out at federal Department of Justice researchers in a study released in February on the national social issue of stalking.

“The most common type of stalking behavior victims experienced was unwanted phone calls and messages,” DOJ officials announced.

I’ve known young people who love texting but even they get exasperated from time to time with the incessant incoming messages.