Texting had been around for more than 150,000 years, and is continuing to have a big effect in the twenty first- century. In the TED talk video, “Txting is Killing Language. JK!!" by John McWhorter, states that “Texting is a miraculous thing not just energetic.” According to John McWhorter, texting is not writing at all, which means that texting is writing the way we speak.First there was speech, and writing came along after that.Writing has advantages because you could go back and correct what you wrote, but when you are speaking you can’t go back and correct something you said.In texting there is loose structure becasue people don’t care how they they spell and people phrase the words to make them short, but in writing you can’t do that.
