In Response to a New York Times Article on Texting

Okay, people, it's time to calm down. All of these articles featuring physicians and psychiatrists speaking out against texting has gone too far. I'd like to look up their phone records and see how many texts they send in a month. As teenagers, we are looked down upon for texting by adults. When in reality, they are being hypocritical. I don't know how many times I have been in class or a public place and an adult-owned phone rings loudly, interrupting whoever is speaking or working. Where are the articles about that? At least my phone is kept on silent, and I can respond silently, without interrupting those around me.
We are living in a technologically advanced time, and cell phone use is frequent in our culture. If these adults have such issues with texting, then they themselves should first stop, instead of pointing fingers and trying to make their children stop. We're in high school, we don't have time to talk on the phone! Would they (being the accusatory adults) rather teenagers spend all night talking on the phone and running up the phone bill, rather than sending a few short texts to get the message across? I don't think so. I don't know anyone who has an 'addiction' to texting, or anyone whose life is being seriously affected negatively because of texting, because it's only communicating. It's not an epidemic or a bad influence or whatever parents like to call it. Your children could be spending their nights in much worse ways.
And as for this freshman girl that complained about permanent thumb pain/cramping because of texting, i suggest to her a new hobby, because that's ridiculous.