The Negative Effects Of Texting

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

Teenagers interact socially with text messaging, that has increased frequency. With more communication, negative effects can now take place. Teens now talk less face-to-face with texting communication (Welton). In 2000, fourteen billion text were sent out monthly. In 2010, 188 billion were being sent out over the United States (Kluger).

I have been the single most wanted electronic device since 1986. I make it easy to stay connected at all times with friends, news, and entertainment. I also cause 1.6 million automobile crashes each year. I am the number one gateway to porn, cyberbullying, and social misconduct. I am a phone. Cellular phones can be either distracting or essential. While driving, they could be deadly or navigational; in class, they could be distractions or educational tools; and behaviorally speaking, cell phones have negative impacts on young children.

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

We hear a lot these days about texting - the ability to get/send a text message from/to anyone, anywhere, via wireless networks and some kind of portable device, which might be a fancy pager, a digital cellphone or a palmtop computer. The technology is here, though it doesn't work everywhere yet. We could argue about how affordable or reliable texting is, but we can't deny it exists and will probably become more widespread. But is this a good thing? In my opinion, there are certain ways in which texting affects many teenagers.

79 % of people who use the smartphone daily is affected by new technology ailment : text neck.

With technology in the palm of our hands, we are spending more time glued to our devices these days, and while phones and tablets are convenient, they are a pain in the neck- literally. That pain you feel in your neck, back, or shoulders after staring down for a long period of time at your phone is called ‘Text neck.’

I have seen plenty of reports on TV about accidents involving texting, and so I know how serious of a problem it is. Just because you can text hands free now does not mean that it is no longer a distraction. If you look away to correct

Do you think texting is bad for your grammar. When i mean texting is like texting LOL,wudo,u is that ruining your grammar. IN this article i was reading it said that texting is bad for you. In the video i watched it says texting does nothing to your grammar when writing a story. Let's get in where they got there information that texting is bad of not bad.

Texting has become such a regular occurrence that it is now a household brand. Trying to determine whether or not texting has a more positive or negative effect on an individual or society would be hard. As both share the same effect equally.

Texting can be fun but it also can be a pain. If you are driving texting can be dangerous. Texting can be bad because your phone could correct your message to say something that you don't want it to say.

Texting decreases the need for any in-depth conversation and can also be seen as a form of avoidance, as abbreviations help people avoid meaningful dialogue or conversations that would be carried on face-to-face instead. Texting also has a negative effect grammar and spelling seeing as it takes shortcuts with emoticons, spelling and punctuation which in conclusion is depriving children and teens from learning the writing and communication skills they need for further needed important education and work. The controversial question that people still ask to this day is whether or not the acronyms, shortcuts, and abbreviations of sloppy communications seriously affect the quality of school work or written communications that students are required

In today society, people can have many ways to communicate, but texting is a very fast way of communicating with others and texting have become huge part of people’s daily live. At everyplace, such as at schools, at workplaces, at home or with a friend and sometimes people may text to other while driving, texting place an important daily routine in their life. Texting become addicted to people. In every place around everywhere, you can see that people have their head down while walking, also, some people will try to walk across the street while texting too. Even though, texting has made communication become more easier, but nowadays, as texting is become more popular to people, the negative impact are increasing in our society and this may

First of all, let’s look at what causes text neck. When you peer down on your phone for extensive period, the natural curvature of your neck changes and this puts a lot of pressure on our neck’s vertebrae and disc. On average, our head weighs about 4kg. But for every inch we drop our head forward, the load is doubled. And as you hunch even further at 60 degree with your chin to your chest, the weight increase seven fold at around 27kg.

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?