Dr. Maria Belina 4/17/2013 To: All Employees From: Director of IT Subject: Reminder: of company policy on the use of email and text messaging. TO: All Employees: Good morning‚ In the past few months our company has grown‚ considerably‚ thus I would like to take some time to go over our company policies on sending company for emails and text messaging. These policies are not meant to limit and censor your emails and texts. However the company provides guidelines for appropriate usage of emails
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This article was found at www.education.com and is one of many on the topic of 21st Century Leaning. In this article‚ Sorrentino asks‚ “Is it possible to think that there could be‚ in between the deafening ring tones and the obsessive text messaging‚ some redeeming educational qualities to these devices?” This question‚ which is posed in the opening paragraph‚ quickly draws me into the remainder of the article as I struggle with the daily excessive cell phone usage of my three sons. As a parent
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Think Twice about Texting and Driving “In 2010‚ 3‚092 people were killed in crashes involving a distracted driver and an estimated additional 416‚000 were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving a distracted driver” (Distracted Driving). Many people do not realize that texting and driving causes so many injuries and deaths. People believe that looking down at a phone for three seconds is okay and will not cause harm. They are wrong; texting while driving causes more accidents than other distractions
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The Shallows Essay Main Points I must say that The Shallows could be the best that I’ve read throughout the program thus far‚ as it kept me intrigued due to the fact that I can relate to the author‚ Nicholas Carr‚ and how the internet has had an extreme effect on the way people think‚ read‚ and become distracted. The author makes many valid points on his interpretation of how he’s been losing focus and how he notices himself wandering off a lot more during a book‚ as well as keeping
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author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. (email) IM means Instant Message‚ which is a form of communication over the internet. Definition of IM according to Wikipedia is‚ “Instant messaging falls under the umbrella term online chat‚ since it is also text-based‚ bi-directionally exchanged‚ and happens in real-time. IM is distinct from chat in that IM is based on clients that facilitate connections between specified known users” With
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Texting Vs. Calling In the world we live in today‚ cell phones play the biggest role in how we communicate with others. Our cell phones offer two different ways to communicate. We can either call or text‚ both options giving us a sufficient way of communication. Calling offers a way of communication that texting cannot offer and vice versa. As similar as calling and texting might be‚ they are different in the way we use them to communicate. Calling and texting are similar because they both are
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way of communication within the business world. Back days‚ people used letters as a way to communicate but now e-mailing has more used because it is a much easier and faster way to communicate with one another. Emoticons are very common is text messaging‚ emailing and etc. Emoticon is a representation of the writer’s facial expression. Emoticons are formed by combinations of keyboard characters‚ such as :-) (for a smile). There are many styles of emoticons‚ each region and/or language use a different
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One aspect of postmodern culture is our being mesmerized by technological devices which have helped erode the separation between the private and public. Critically discuss the ways in which texting both enhances and decreases social interaction and intimacy. It seems that individuals have been arguing about what is natural and what is not from the beginning of time. The original and natural product is very rarely found that professions have been created to find the origins
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Rylee Kay Jamie McBeth-Smith English 1010-053 9/16/14 “2b or Not 2b” by David Crystal Is texting making our language worse or is it improving it? David Crystal‚ “a professor at the University of Wales and is known for his work in English language studies and linguistics” (335)‚ writes about how many people think that texting is destroying our language‚ but Crystal believes that texting can improve children’s ability to read and write‚ he also writes that texting may add a new dimension to communication
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driving because in order to view or reply to any text message‚ their eyes have to be completely off of the road for a given time period. There is absolutely no such thing as the perfect driver‚ let alone somebody being able drive perfectly while text messaging no matter how advanced the technology may be because it will still be a constant distraction taking your attention away from the road. In 2009 about twenty percent of all automobile accidents were caused by distracted driving. Of that twenty percent
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