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Texts From Last Night (TFLN) is a regularly updated blog that re-posts short text messages submitted by its users.〔Terrence O'Brien. ''Switched'': ("TextsFromLastNight.com Collects wasted Text Messages" ). Apr 29, 2009.〕 The site tends to post texts that are shocking or scandalous.〔''WHAS11'': ("Website makes millions laugh with our private texts" ). July 19, 2009.〕 The texts are sent in by people who wake in the morning "to find regrettable messages sent to or from their mobile phones".〔Tim Walker. ''The Evening Herald'': ("The best way to land a book deal -- start a silly blog" ). July 29, 2009.〕〔''UrbanDaddy'': ("Last Night's Party Lines: Textsfromlastnight.com: Just What It Sounds Like" ). April 29, 2009.〕 The receiver then sends the allegedly discovered text into this website.〔 The copies of the messages do not show the phone numbers, but only area codes.〔''Text From Last Night'' http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/about/〕 Since the texts are often similar to late night drunk dials, they're often graphic and sexual in nature,〔Caleb Bacon. ''LAist'': ("Umm... About Your Texts From Last Night..." ). May 1, 2009.〕 thus not safe for work.〔〔''WBAL: AM 1090'': ("WARNING: Texts From Last Night" ). April 28, 2009.〕 From a sociological perspective, the website is a "living document of twentysomething life in 2009". While TFLN has many "blackout drinking, sex, and vomit stories", there is also an extended discussion taking place about morality. The texts show how humans "interact with drugs and alcohol". "We see the cause and effect of last night’s party, and we can see a real-time weighing of these actions." However, there is concern that peoples' actions and texts will be affected by the existence of the website and its popularity.〔David Mekelburg. ''Splice Today'': ("Overnight Sociology: Texts From Last Night offers a better glimpse of life-as-lived than any other social networking site" ). June 3, 2009.〕 ==Book== Six months after the website went up, the two creators of ''TFLN'' signed a deal to pen a book, wherein they will use the most entertaining texts.〔 The book will be published by Gotham Books, which is part of the Penguin Group. Erin Malone, from William Morris Endeavor also helped other blogs translate into books, including ''Stuff White People Like'', ''The Book of Awesome'', and ''Soul Pancake''.〔Susan Thurston. ''St. Petersburg Times'': ("The best drunken, embarrassing, raunchy text messages, all on one site" ). June 5, 2009.〕 Since the content is already written, the book, which has been described as "bathroom reading",〔 is expected to be published as a trade paperback by the beginning of 2010.〔Leon Neyfakh. ''The New York Observer'': ("Book Based on 'Texts From Last Night' Blog Sold to Gotham" ). June 26, 2009.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Texts From Last Night」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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