Text messaging

Known in Chinese as Weixin, “micro message,” WeChat is a mobile messaging app for sending text, voice, and photos to friends and family. It was launched just 4 years ago by Chinese investment holding company Tencent, one of the largest internet companies in the world. As of earlier this year, WeChat had more than 500 million monthly active users among over one billion registered users, almost all of them in Asia. WeChat quickly gains popularity due to its features and appearance. It allows users

doesn't ring the doorbell. They text or call to say they're outside,” this line is from one of the well-known social networks, Tweeter, which shows how the way of communication has change in this modern life. According to 2013 statistics by Business Insider, in United States alone, smartphone owners aged 18 to 24 send 2,022 texts per month on average — 67 texts on a daily basis — and receive another 1,831 texts (Cocotas). Nowadays, technology such as text messaging has practically replaced traditional

Text Messaging Enhances Language My younger brother sits as his computer everyday after work to "talk" to his friends through America Online (AOL) Instant Messaging (IM). They use terms like BRB (be right back) and LOL (laugh out loud) that seem a little confusing to the "out-dated" older sibling. It amazes me that he can carry on a conversation using abbreviations for virtually every word or phrase. It doesn't even bother him anymore that I peek over his shoulder to see what they're "talking"

Almost a generation of teens have access to a phone with text messages. They spend so much time shorting words, they lose the ability to be literate. Teenagers today are more worried about their phones, in school or out of school, causing them to drop their grades and get them in lots of trouble. The telephone was invented in 1870 by Gray and Bell, who then battled over the true inventor of the telephone, which Bell won. Bell then began experimenting with electrical signs, which brought the telegraph

The usage of sending text messages is greater than it used to be years ago, when it first became available. We as humans enjoy to create new ways to communicate, even at the cost of losing some information. Text messaging brought out the, “work smarter, not harder” community by creating abbreviations and short-hand versions of words to make talking to others easier. There are even downloadable applications (apps) that could connect two people online to see each other face-to-face. There are two groups

communication to express their thoughts. Where there was once snail mail and emails, now things have become as instantaneous as a text message or Tweet. Since people seem to write with such haste and almost carelessness today, it is important for students to be provided with slower paced writing exploration in the classroom. In “Writing for the Instant Messaging and Text Messaging Generation: Using New Literacies to Support Writing Instruction,” Sheelah M. Sweeney states, “Teachers may be concerned about

now being a necessity in our everyday life. However, the question is. Does technology take away from interpersonal communication and interactions with our co-workers, peers, and colleagues? How many would have rather talked to someone through text messaging, email, or social media to avoid a face to face communication? We may not realize it, but being dependent upon technology has only conditioned us to become less social, interactive, and outgoing. when you go out with a group of friends,do you

Article 1 The Blackberry Project: Capturing the Content of Adolescents’ Text Messaging The authors examines different communication techniques which leads to cyberbullying through their methods by using different applications to help them understand why is cyberbullying still taking place. The authors’ purpose of this study is to determine the relations between adolescent’s electronic communication (text messaging) and their social life and how there is a strong connection between adolescent’s

the world, mobile phone applications and text messaging are widely used in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) in Asia that have major burdens of maternal deaths and preterm births. This type of communication has also been explored in interventions to improve health outcomes for a variety of conditions, and it seems plausible that it could help to increase healthy behavior in pregnant women. This review will assess the effectiveness of text messaging and mobile applications (commonly described

SINHGAD TECHNICAL INSTITUTES CAMPUS SINHGAD INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT A Study on impact of text messaging on teen age students Prepared by Rambhu kumar(11) Komal jaiswal(15) Pankaj kakani(17) Sukirti keswani(18) Nitin maske(19) Introduction 1 See it? Hear it? Take it! This is still the mantra of many schools across the country that succinctly summarizes