Negative Effects Of Texting

Kate Hafner’s article, “Texting May Be Taking a Toll” claims that texting is an issue to teenagers around the world. As an illustration, Hafner starts the article by identifying that teenagers send a drastic amount of texts in their everyday lives. according to the Nielsen Company, “American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008”(1). This is just one of the examples of many that portrays teenagers around the world send many text messages. Along with teenagers sending many texts a day, hafner also shows in this article that texting is affecting teenager's life in many different ways for example, preventing teenagers' way of becoming independent. Just as professor Turkle presented,

Years of research show that texting is leading to an increase in social awkwardness in teens and children. “Nini Halkett has taught history there for two decades. As her students are increasingly immersed in texting, Halkett also finds them increasingly shy and awkward in person.” (Jennifer Ludden’s article “Teen Texting Soars; Will Social Skills Suffer?” paragraph 14). With a majority of teens feeling more at ease texting each other, this can and will lead to

The article presents the problem with communication with lots of research that has been done in past years. The research data it was presented was mostly accurate through the essay. another article written by Moscaritolo, Angle says “teens sends and receives 60 texts massage a day, up for 50 in 2009…” as the years gone there has been an increase in uses of phones. We can get be in a family meeting but more often you will find out teens prefer to talk to you by text than having face

According to physicians and psychologists, texting leads to anxiety, repetitive stress injury, and sleep deprivation (Hafner). Due to the brain’s plasticity, teenagers can be easily influenced by the constant use of cell phones. During a period of time where emotions and behaviors are already unstable, cell phone use adds to the stress on the adolescents’ body and mind. An altered mental state, temporarily or permanently damaged thumbs, and disturbed biological functions are just a few of the many negative effects. In addition, a single problem can branch out into a multitude of other issues later on.

Katie Hafner’s article, “Texting May Be Taking a Toll,” displays that the rising number of texts sent by adolescents day in and day out is starting to take a big toll on them, their lifestyle, and the people around them. To start off, in the first part of the article Hafner expresses that the point of the first section is that with a growing number of young people utilizing texting and using it nonstop texting is causing serious issues such as anxiety, failing grades, distraction in school, sleep issues and many others. The author exclaims in the section that, “The phenomenon is beginning to worry physicians and psychologists, who say it is leading to anxiety distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation.”

Some teenagers believe that text message communication enables them to express their feelings freely and sincerely to someone. This is why

Consequently, people who text a lot may be more uncomfortable with in-person communication.” Taking this information into account, it becomes clear that cell phones have essentially decreased face-to-face socialization and have socially affected those who use cell phones as a main source of communication. Along with the absence of face-to-face social interaction, arises the issue of resolving problems via text rather than in person. Cell phones have provided a way to hide behind technology from emotionally distressing events, such as ending relationships (Campbell, 2005).

Texting is a brilliant way to miscommunicate how you feel and misinterpret what other people mean. Texting is a great way for a quick conversation but face to face interactions are much more meaningful. Moreover, texting is a bad way to maintain relationships, because it jumbles up what you mean, and gives you false hope that you are in control of the conversation.

Issue: Texting is bad in many situations and younger individuals find texting to be acceptable in certain circumstances where it should not be exercised.

Advocates of texting promote the concept of easy communication, but the opposing view point emphasizes the decline in social ability as an effect of texting. Texting can be abused almost effortlessly. Communication via thumb has become so prominent that it is constantly used for practically any task. Are you in an argument with someone? Just text them and ignore the in-person confrontation; it’s much easier. Many have seen relationships—both friendly and romantic—decline due to the replacement of social interaction with a screen. In the passage, Rule of Thumbs: Love in the Age of Texting by Natalie Moore, Moore’s informal diction, humorous anecdotes and outside sources back up the disadvantages of technology.

There are quite a few bad things that can happen when we text to much and not talk enough face to face, but there is also a lot of benefits to texting that helps people nowadays in society. Like I have said when we are texting it tends to remove the tone people seem to have when talking on the phone, also the hostile body language. There are plenty of benefits that come with texting but there are a lot of issues with it as well. We as a society just needed to know how to balance the two out so that face to face communication doesn't stop, but also use text between each other if you're asking them to do a simple task. As a society we just needed to learn how to balance the two out between each

Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old test engineer, sent the first ever text message on December 3, 1992. Papworth sent the words "Merry Christmas" and by 2005 the number of text messages sent everyday exceeded the earth’s population (Deffree,2016) It’s fair to say texting today has become the “standard” and "normal" way to communicate with others. Also, in many ways texting has made communication easier. “259 million people are sending out 8.5 billion texts a day, that accounts to roughly 32-33 messages per day, per person” (Burke, 2016). Texting has obviously become the preferred method of contacting someone. Texting is most common among my generation, “The Millennials”. It’s no secret that us, millennials, love our smart phones. In fact, millennials favorite group activity is getting together and being on our phones. That may not actually be a fact but, quite often you will find a group of people, hanging out on their phones instead of interacting with each other. Texting might make life simple, but has it hurt the way we communicate as a society?

“I think we should brake up.” You can imagine the dismay and horror of a teenager receiving this text from her boyfriend of almost a year. Not only was it the wrong form of the word “brake”, but it was also just through a screen. I was bitter and angry about it for some time. He had the audacity to not read over his text and to just end this long and meaningful relationship in a matter of seconds without even seeing my face. It was devastating to me, especially at this age where most couples think that they are the one couple that will end up being together forever. This is just one of the examples of the negative effects of texting. Even so, it is a common activity that we participate in every day, but we typically do not think about how much it is affecting us.

Texting has many effects. When I think of texting many dangerous and unethical behaviors come to mind. We all know texting has a brief history, many people prefer texting to talking on the phone, and texting has its own problems when misuse. When we are texting communication is lost and is in considered of others and mostly affecting people’s health.

Over the past 3 decades, cell phones have taken over the world by storm. These small mobile devices have changed every day folk lives to an entirely new twist. It has engulfed the population of America so much that it has become a part of one’s daily routine to check this device no matter what we are doing. This, unfortunately, does include driving. Matter of fact, cell phones have impacted America so significantly, that 1.6 million people die from the use of a cell phone while driving. So the question might come up, “What could these individuals being doing on their phones?” Well, they could be looking in a camera, playing a game, or doing the most common function everyone does, texting. 1 out of every 4 car accidents are caused by texting and driving in the United States. In four different experiments of psychologist David Strayer, Frank Drews, and William Johnston, they found out that talking on the phone is a distraction for driving, whether it be looking at the surroundings or cars in front of the vehicle (2003). Throughout the trails, participants were to drive in a simulator and conversate through a hand-free cell phone (Strayer, Drews, & Johnston 2003). The evidence found for experiment one, following a car that periodically and unexpectedly stopped, was that talking distracted them from crashing into the car in front of them (Strayer, Drews, &Johnston 2003). The other three trials were based on seeing their environment around them, which the drivers also failed in