How Does Texting Affect Us

Texting has become a common way of communicating between peers. It isn’t just used to chat with your friends, it has also become essential in the workplace, creating a bigger connection between work and your personal life. An article was published on The Liberal on the risks of texting, but I actually believe texting is great for us. It has made communication easier and its negative impacts are very avoidable. The risks mentioned in the article are the driving impairments, the physical injuries, and the effect it can have on your grammar. Although these risks seem dangerous, they can be avoided easily.

My response to the article of the week “Txring is killing language” is a presentation by the linguist John McWhorter giving his opinion on texting. He believes that texting is not killing language it’s actually creating a new language. Texting is a double bladed knife it can really benefit you when you need it. Like when you need a quick and fast answer from a friend or you can use emojis to show your expression. At the same time texting has killed many people because they were texting and driving. I agree with McWhorter on “texting is becoming a new language” but takes responsibility to use. Kids have been bullied thru texting and many kid have committed suicide. Many mistakes have made over texting if you are texting and someone sends you

In David Crystal’s article “2b or Not 2b”, he disapproves the common belief that texting will destroy language. Crystal states that he thinks texting may even add a new dimensions to how we communicate and or improve our literacy skills. Pointing out the fact that no one has to actually know the proper form of language before using alternatives or abbreviations. Texting gives freedom and creativity to the person writing and an opportunity to experience a different way to interact with others. Crystal on page 341, simply concludes that no matter how much we are playful and powerful with texting it is just simply overall “fun”. Though, not all will agree, many feel it is a problem that needs to be removed.This came from a counter argument written

Is texting such a horrible thing or does it actually have its benefits? Does it cause one to be illiterate? Do you get lower grades in school because you text? Many people have different ideas and opinions when it comes to texting. In the essay “ 2b or Not 2b, by David Crystal, texting is talked about as being helpful and created for a specific purpose. Specifically, Crystal responds to the claim that reporter John Humphrys makes, “texters are vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbors 800 years ago”. Then, on the other hand you have Sylvia E. Mc Donald, who argues that texting while in class causes one to have lower grades and this could predict how they are in their future.

Text messaging creates a craze in a specific way of using communication in writing and in speech. It establishes lingos that should not be used in one’s academic life. As stated by Naomi Baron in Linguists Mixed on Effects of Text Messaging, “Problems arise when people use the quick-casual language in other forms of written communication.” The method of writing in text

Have always wondered if text messages have been dumbing us down or making us smarter in way? In today’s society who has an answer for this type of question. In the article, I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language, by John Humphrys, talks about how text messaging are a danger to people's English language ; especially in the younger generation. John Humphry’s takes a unique perspective when analyzing the practice of text messaging. He focuses on the todays teenagers as an example of the uses of text messaging. The other article by David Crystal’s, 2b or Not 2b discusses the many implications of new texting technologies throughout his article. Crystal Focuses on the three major topics in his article which are texting languages, the

One text message is all it takes for one’s life to change completely. Five seconds, five seconds for one text message that could wait ,could not only change your life, but multiple other people’s. Texting while driving is a big problem, and needs harder punishment in order to fix this problem.

Technology is always growing and in today’s world texting is a part of everyday life. Texting makes it easy to send and receive quick replies when you can not get on the phone to talk. Teenagers can know right away if something is wrong, or simply send someone a text to let them know they will be late. Texting has increased greatly in popularity and is now one of the main forms of communication among teenagers. However, I believe that this way of communicating has resulted in long lasting, negative effects for some teenagers.

The end of the twentieth century dawned a series of innovating technologies that would forever change human culture. Computers were first on the market, followed by telecommunication devices, known today as cellphones, and finally the world revolutionizing Internet; Which would forever change access to information, and interactions with others. Now in the twenty first century, technology is a large factor in everyday lives. Limiting human contact has had a negative effect on people's lives due to cellphones, computers, and social media. Cellphones enhanced abilities to communicate with people that had not been there before. The narrative to call someone, seemingly on the other side of the world, was fresh and invigorating. On the other hand, at this day

Contrary to what many people believe text messaging and “textisms,” the abbreviated spellings of text messages, may not be harming the younger generation in terms of literacy and grammar skills. Recent studies have even found that a in younger children texting and textisms is helping improve spelling and literacy development (Kemp 2014). One of the recurring points made by researchers is that textism does not do much harm to our literacy skills because most people are able to decide the appropriate times to use textisms and when it is a appropriate to use correct grammar, spellings, as well as punctuation and capitalization.

First, The issue is that text messages encourage the use of informal and abbreviated language among teenagers.

When texting becomes a problem it can affect many things. For example, relationships can be strongly hurt by texting words can be taken the wrong way. When somebody receives words like “K”, “whatever”, “cool” or swear words it can start a fight or just annoy the other person. Although teens that have had phones their entire life, know what words are acceptable and know how to respond to it, our parents don’t all understand why if they say K, we think they are mad at us. The benefit of talking in person is that we are able to pick up nonverbal clues on how that person feels and instead of saying “lol” we can really tell if people are in a good mood.

Text messaging and instant messaging have become so widely used by teens that teachers have noticed a drastic change in students’ literacy. This change is constantly debated on whether texting is hindering the younger generations’ developing minds or if it is opening teenagers to a whole new realm of communication in our technologically advancing times. Research shows that texting is detrimental to the literacy of a developing teenager.

Texting can help your reading ability. Since you are reading messages and sending messages, it will help pace yourself when reading. It can also help your spelling. When you are writing an essay or another assignment you can remember from a text message how to spell a word. Many children feel shy asking questions face to face so when texting they can just ask questions to whoever they need help from. It will help the child feel more comfortable. Texting can also help people with talking disorders. If the person with the talking disorder needs

Within the average teenagers lifetime we have gone from what is the internet to I feel naked without my iphone. To put that in perspective Google was not invented until 1998, texting was not possible until 1999, facebook was created in 2004, youtube came into existence in 2005, twitter was launched in 2006, instagram in 2010, snapchat in 2011, the word selfie did not exist until 2 years. And the first iphone came out in 2007, that is eight years ago. This whole word of carrying around the world wide web wherever you go, that did not happen until recently. Less than ten years ago.