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Mobile Phones And Its Impact On The Way

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In today’s world you cannot go anywhere without seeing at least one person attached to their cell phone texting. This day and age sending a text is the quickest and most efficient form of communication. The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University found that (78%) of teens now have a cell phone and almost half (47%) of those teens have smartphones. That translates into (37%) of all teens who have cellphones, up from just (23%) in 2011(Madden). Today, people tend to use their phones to text more than they do to make phones calls, and this can serve to be beneficial. The introduction of mobile phones and texting has seriously impacted the way in which people communicate. Humans no longer have to make calls in order to communicate with family and friends and it saves the time of making a phone call when you can easily send out a text. Mobile phone acceptance among American teens has increased significantly causing the question— does texting affect teen literacy? The invention of the text message was developed in 1984 by the GSM Corporation two inventors named Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert; the two created a way to send a short message using existing cellular signals (Yukozimo). The signals are sent and received from a cell phone tower or control channel. In order for the phone calls and messages to come through, the control channel needs to know which phone belongs to which phone number. Depending on the location of the cell phone, it will

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