Texting

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How is texting affecting the literacy of teens
Awyanna Mayberry
Period :4
5/22/13

Text messaging can affect a person’s social skills, writing skills, driving skills. The money that people spend on phones and texting can cause financial hardship. Text messaging has begun to have a detrimental effect on teens writing skills. They use abbreviations, as most teenagers get used to short texting, some of their grades dropped due to the spelling errors they make. So many teens get used to abbreviating that they write that way. Teenager’s writing skills have turned into sentence fragments because of the limited space that they put texts into sentence. Vocabulary and grammar is also affecting their literacy. They seem to pay more attention to their phone than what the teacher is teaching. They seem to have the phones that will spell the word for them so they don’t have to worry about spelling. So when they at school they really don’t really pay attention to their spelling, therefore” lowering their i.q points lol”.
Text messaging is a method that has been adapted to teenage social skills. Most teen’s relationships are put to an end with the help of texts. Teens seem to break up with their girlfriend or boyfriend with just a text message. More teenagers seem to spend more time texting than to hanging out there their friends and family. It even can prevent teens from becoming confident. They may seem to think that things are just fine when they are not. The rapidly growing rate of phone technology at this modernized generation is kind of upsetting. It seems that anywhere you can see teens glued to their phone screen, fingers typing away. On sidewalks, school, even in the most crowded places. Majority of teenagers don’t even look up from their phones. There is no arguing that teenagers nowadays text more than ever. The majority of population claims that the short hand and abbreviated characteristics of text messaging are making teenagers lazy, not forcing them to use the proper grammar and spelling that teenagers learn in school. Considering the popularity of text messaging to teenagers, it is believed that this type of communication is destroying the way people read, think and write. Text messaging was even preferred by some as “The Dumbest Generation”.
One study (Hogan et al., 2012) states that cell phones are becoming a necessity this modern day, to the point where every teenager and adult must have at least one. Teens are rapidly depending on cell phones that is ridiculous. Text Messaging becomes a reality for the blind, and visually impaired.”
“85% of the British population owns a mobile phone, with sending over 11 million text meesages daily.
Text messaging is affecting teen literacy by how we can communicate, and how we spell. Example we use Facebook a lot, which is how we can also use improper spelling, or we can use incorrect use of the words. it can effect how we act, our writing and spelling skills, and our language( use of how it goes or use it in an incorrect way.).
Teenagers text a lot because we like to send videos, pictures, and or plain messages. Its ruining teens knowledge because cell phones can cause brain damage and or it can make your eyes hurt if ur on it to long. But texting I s kind of helpful to us because it keeps our fingers occupied and, when we use our fingers a lot they grow.
The main bad reason why text messaging is affecting teen literacy is by how we can do anything but it can be seen by the government and your school so then us teens decide, to say things we shouldn’t or send things we shouldn’t then we end up getting in trouble because then , the school and or government has proof that your friend and you said that or sent it to each other, and you r both in trouble anyway.
That’s why text messaging is effecting teen literacy.