Texting And Talking As A Form Of Communication

When you receive a text, you do not have to respond immediately. This can be beneficial for people who have trouble processing other people talking to them, for people in other countries, and for delicate situations. For people with slow processing, texting means being able to engage in active conversation, without having to keep track of what people are saying and struggling to understand what somebody is saying. This is because texting leaves a list of what somebody is saying, and so instead of misunderstanding someone in casual conversation you have exactly what someone is saying in written word. For people in other countries, it could be 2 am where they are, and noon where the person they’re communicating with is.

Texting allows us to stay in touch with others in a most efficient way. We type a quick text, hit send, and in a matter of seconds our recipient has our text. Receiving a text is fast, but typing out a clear, concise

Texting is a fast and efficient way of communicating. Whether it comes to contacting your distant friends or receiving emergency information from your doctor, you can get responses form the person you are texting in more seconds. Many of us are

Texting has become the normal way of communicating with others in this generation. This is scary because to be completely honest, even though I know I am attached to my phone, I do realize that certain conversations I am having via text would be more effective and personal if I were to pick up the phone and call the person rather than being limited to 130 characters of letters onto a screen. One cannot understand the others tone of voice through a simple text message which is why some relationships and friendships are ruined due to texting.

When you are texting, you can tell the person whom you are speaking to what you are feeling without having to utter a single word. Most texts are written in shortened words,

Texting for me is an all-day experience. I communicate when or where I will be, or check up on what people are doing. I use digital shorthand here more than anywhere. Most words are not spelled out in full, “cumn ovr nw” (Coming over now.), and “wht r u doin” (What are you doing?). Even the accepted cyber vernacular is ignored in favor of my own gibberish. Mostly I write to a specific audience not an unknown reader, and take liberties with my words.

Verbal communication refers to when you have a verbal conversation or verbally tell, or ask someone something. Texting affects this type of communication in the way that sometimes we tend to talk as if we were texting and we are not. For example, when we are laughing with our friends instead of actually laughing we tend to say “LOL”. This type of communication is really important

The English language and how we communicate to each other is constantly changing, and texting is just the newest way it has evolved. When a person writes, it is a conscious act. A person

Texting can be fun when you are texting your friend. When texting too much or being on social media too much, you might say the wrong word send the wrong text and it might blow up in your face. When you text or on social media, too much it can change your life. So texting and social media can cause more problem then you can handle.

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.

Instant gratification has become the social norm in this generation but is diminishing the quality of communication. Cell phones have changed massively in the past few years, making communication weaken each time cell phones are updated. At first, cell phones were just used for calling. Calling was the only operation that they were capable of and most of the time calling was not even convenient on a cell phone. Although the concept of texting has been out for decades, actual texting became available to all society in 1994 (Turrettini). Texting instantly

Remember the days when people only used their cell phones in case of emergency? Those days are long gone now, as many people can’t seem to go a second without their phones. This is, in part, due to the invention of text messaging and its continued increase in usage over the past decade or so. The creation of all these different texting apps, such as WhatsApp, Viber, etc., has made texting very easily accessible, even to those who can’t afford cell phones. For instance, some of these apps, such as iMessage and textPlus, are free and can be downloaded through any Apple device, including iPads and iPods. Text messaging is now an integral part of society, as it has become one of the main forms of communication over the last few years, being used even more frequently than calling. In spite of popular belief, the increase in the use of text messaging has led to a socially ruined society, in which people seem to almost have forgotten how to properly communicate and how to interact with one another.

Mobile phones have become a crucial part of our society today. The increasing number of texts and phone calls is alarming. Texting and calling have become popular ways of communication. Over the past twenty years, there has probably been more texts sent and received than calls. Although texting may be faster, more organized, and convenient, it also takes full concentration, has a delayed response, and emotion or sarcasm is hard to detect. Calling, on the other hand, can be more personal, more information and detail can be communicated, and an immediate response is received. Even though there are many benefits of calling, there are also some downsides. For example, the receiver might not answer, more personal conversations take longer, and words and thoughts are on the spot. Calling and texting both can be good ways of communication, it all depends on the point you are trying to portray.

In the past, families used to schedule time frames in order to all get together to sit down and have a talk about what had happened during their day. Since the creation of the smartphone, this has changed from a time for everyone to talk and socialize with each other into a competition of how many words per minute someone can text on their smartphone. This situation has occurred in none other than my family. Every dinner, we used to get together and converse about each other’s day and now it has changed into a time to use our phones. Even if we are only rooms apart, we much rather send each other a text message than call out each other’s name and engage in conversation in this matter. By no longer engaging in these conversations the smartphone has reinvented the way humans go about their social relationships. It is due to this that many people in the world today cannot have a face-to-face conversation because they feel unsafe with this form of conversation. As Sherry Turkle says:

When it comes to communication, before the smartphone, there were of course the less popular cordless phones. Which, according to my mother were unpopular due to their bulky size and complexity paired with a ugly large antenna. Then there were smaller cell phones which were a bit more popular but usually had other limitations such as small keypads with corresponding letters to numbers, or limits on call distances, and sometimes limited text and talking minutes. Communication is power and should not be limited or difficult for anyone. While before any of this, communication was even harder with hand written letters, which lacked auto correct, and could take a good length of time before arriving to the recipient. Most smartphone plans now are unlimited to communication and are almost an instantaneous connection from one person to another for means of discussion. With smartphones the size is perfect for your pocket while still being big enough for you to see and type on a full size keyboard to communicate in the now popular form “texting” even including emojis to express emotions.