Texting And Social Media Analysis

Over the centuries societies social norms have changed, today's day and age is all about texting and social media, which has impacted society in many different ways. Many people debate whether such large quantity of texting and social media has a negative, positive or neutral effect on society. Some people believe that communication skills are improving, with the use of texting and social media, whereas others believe it’s limiting ways of communication, damaging people's use of the english language, and decreasing vocabulary and social interaction. People have always had a bone to pick with advancements in society, but in the last 10 years or so people have really had a dissention against texting and social media; mostly because the more …show more content…
Definitely not. There are many drawbacks to social media and texting, and a main issue is the ways that it limits face-to-face communication. People nowadays would rather pick up a phone and text someone rather than call them, and would much rather call someone than have an actual conversation with them in person. Even when communicating online, quality of conversations that take place online are rarely genuine, people can have entire conversations and not learn anything from or care about the conversation, yet it’s made a point to have the saem meaningless conversation with people, daily. Writers can also too easily dismiss or ignore other points of view. For instance, when reading over an argumentative status online, comments are posted where people completely ignore the point of the post and pick on a small portion to dissect and twist the meanings around. If you were having the same argumentative conversation face-to-face, there wouldn’t be as many pin-poke slip ups, with people trying to poke holes in an argument because there are facial expressions, tone of voice and more of an ability to speak freely and explain things more clearly when having a conversation in …show more content…
Yes! When texting or posting on social media, most people aren’t always at their most serious forms, often times not caring about misspelled words or absentminded abbreviations, as long as their point is gotten across then so be it. “ … such as the reports in 2003 that a teenager had written an essay so full of text speak that her teacher was unable to understand it.” (901, Crystal, 2b or Not 2b). Although parents should limit certain things for different age groups of their kids, social media and texting is more and more common in younger children, and so they’re brains, willing to accept any and all information, are happening across lots of mis-information like initialisms. These same children are not only applying them to their everyday lives of social media and texting, but also to their