Text Messaging Craze

Denise Garner

DTC 375: Language, Texts & Technology

Dr. Jason Farman

Tuesday 27th, Jan. 2009

Word count: 770

Text Messaging Craze

Experts say that technology has added new layers to our understanding of what means to be literate. In fact, technology has put new emphasis on reading and writing, according to experts. For instance, cell phones have twice as many features as are necessary. Cell phones are a handy tool. It is not uncommon if we hear those cell phones ring different tunes altering the user of a new message or if we see people with the case of their phones matching the color of their attire. That common saying may have some truth, but cell phones are not the only communication device the media enjoys. For many people, text messaging has become the most popular up coming new fad in town because it has created a new form of condensed communication that fits with the pace of our current generation of the information age.

First of all, people enjoy communicating in text messaging, you see this especially in young teens. Text messaging is a whole new language all of its own. This is what makes it so unique. Also, it affects the way people communicate through ownership. For instance, in younger teens, it gives them a sense of stability and makes them feel more confident in themselves. People fully utilize text messaging with their friends, boyfriend, or girlfriend as their main form of communicating similar to email or talking on their cell phones. Since this seems to be all fun and games now a days, "as I argue here, in what context is it appropriate or inappropriate to use text messaging? It is very inappropriate to use this technology in the classroom. Not only this, but it can also distract the person next to you as well as loosing important information notes from your instructor that you are going to utilize on your test. One more to consider is that, it poses a potential danger while driving and accidents have happened from the cause. Some are more alert to the beep then to watch that traffic signal. Rule: don’t text and drive." http//memberslycos.co.uk/arbee222/doxhmtl

Second of all, text massagers are down to earth people of an ordinary household. Unlike cell phones, text messaging doesn’t make loud annoying rings. In fact, it just makes a funny noise. It generally makes a quiet existence. Text messaging also doesn’t have restrictions unlike cell phones when communicating. Although text messaging can rack up a bill if you don’t keep track, people must make provisions for this. As a last resort, of course, an unlimited text messaging plan is a good idea to consider that fits the pace.

Thirdly, another communication that fit’s the pace of our generation is that "having our phone subscribed to the Globe, in fact, it has become the new status symbol and seldom do we see people without their phones glued to their fingers text messaging in some form or another. For example, teenagers elsewhere in the world have been texting furiously for years, using the cheap technology to evade government controls on dating in Saudi Arabia and to foment revolution in the Philippines. Now that texting has exploded in America, it’s regarded as one of the current teen generation’s inexplicable behaviors, like text messaging." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
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Further more, communicating via text messaging most attractive feature is a fast learning
communication. Text messaging doesn’t have to be that image of keeping up with the pace of the information age. Just think of it as the old school, for example, going back to short hand. Texting is quick, painless procedure. Text messaging also takes care of how we might be afraid to communicate in person if we want to apologize to someone. In everyday use, text messaging can become a creative tool of communication. For instance, just look how many abbreviations you can choose from just to know how to communicate in text messaging form of content. You can Google the word abbreviation of text messaging and you come up with over a 1000 words from A- Z, or just go to the store and get a small version on a poster so you can understand what the generation age is talking about. There it is again, going back to the latest fad of communication with short hand.

In conclusion, last but not least, the development of text messaging through the new communication that fits the pace of our current generation of information age has truly become the new talk of the town.

Work Cited
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/19/AR2007051901284.ht
2. http//memberslycos.co.uk/arbee222/dox.hmtl