Text Messages Affecting Teens

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According to John Myhra (n.d.) “A problem some teachers are noticing is that students no longer know how to punctuate correctly. Text messages often contain run on sentence and don’t contain any punctuation; students are carrying this poor habit to the classroom. Another concern is the use of lower cases letters”. Teenagers makes mistake by constructing a run on sentence and doesn’t contain any punctuation because of text messaging. They make themselves used to text in abbreviated form that’s why there is a situation that even in their studies they will use what they are using in text messaging. Resulting many teenagers to make missing words, missing punctuation, and misspelled words due to over use of text messaging. …show more content…
Jonae Fredericks(n.d.) stated that “Much like a sleepwalker, the teen sends and responds to text message during the first two stages of sleep. Joe Schroeder, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Connecticut College, explains that it is not unusual for someone who is very attached to their cellphone to respond to text a message while she is not full awake. The result the next day is a very tired, moody teen who may not even remember responding to the text”.
Over use of text messaging affects a teenagers daily life, because they text so much that even in weekdays teenagers can not have enough time to rest their eyes as a result the next day they wake up it seems like they are very tired. And the effect is when they go to school they get sleepy and they will not understand the lecture because they slept during the class hours. According to Jayne Blanchar (2015) “A study released in 2010 by the American Public Health Association that hyper texting, texting more than 120 times a day can lead to an increased risk of smoking, drinking, and drugs use, physical violence and sexual activity. Of the the teens surveyed the hyper texters were twice as likely to have experimented with alcohol and three times more likely to have had sex that teens who messaged

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