OMG Grl Wut U UP 2? A language most teenagers today would understand, and most teachers would cringe at. Texting is a lifeline to people nowadays, especially teenagers who are glued to their phones twenty-four seven. Most people no longer see face to face to relay information, our generation can just send a text and not worry about actually talking or even making a phone call. Along with texting, Facebook is a way to make people meet new friends without actually seeing them. This may cause more harm than a good solid friendship as some might think. Technology such as Facebook and text messaging are distancing us from life and is bad by causing us to become less social, emotional and physical pain from using Facebook, and people are dying from texting.
When people text and log onto Facebook, isolation is occurring and the world around us is removed. A whole new world is entered and a new conversation is started with someone not even around us. “Teens and Mobile Phones, found that more teens report contacting their friends on a daily basis using …show more content…
People think as young adults, they are invincible to the world and they have their whole lives ahead of them but they really don’t. They are looking down at a little screen, pushing buttons as fast as they can and that is causing more car accidents and people getting hit by cars and dying. The Institute for Highway Safety says 25 percent of all accidents are from texting while driving. Sending a text message is so important that they are risking their lives to send it to someone who would rather have them alive than dead. There is about 11 teen deaths every day because of texting while driving. To try and prevent these, causes have been created such as the X the Text campaign and It Can Wait. Today texting has become such a big part of an everyday life that people forget about what’s important to
When people text and log onto Facebook, isolation is occurring and the world around us is removed. A whole new world is entered and a new conversation is started with someone not even around us. “Teens and Mobile Phones, found that more teens report contacting their friends on a daily basis using …show more content…
People think as young adults, they are invincible to the world and they have their whole lives ahead of them but they really don’t. They are looking down at a little screen, pushing buttons as fast as they can and that is causing more car accidents and people getting hit by cars and dying. The Institute for Highway Safety says 25 percent of all accidents are from texting while driving. Sending a text message is so important that they are risking their lives to send it to someone who would rather have them alive than dead. There is about 11 teen deaths every day because of texting while driving. To try and prevent these, causes have been created such as the X the Text campaign and It Can Wait. Today texting has become such a big part of an everyday life that people forget about what’s important to