Communication with friends and family has been with a cell phone for many years, but people have created a cell phones (which now people mostly use smartphones) that are much more advance to what they use to use decades ago, which now that fit right in your pocket. They have advanced to where you can short hand almost every single word and abbreviate while texting. In the essay Texting by David Crystal he refers these abbreviations as “Textspeak” (243). Textspeak was mostly created by young people who like to text a lot and don’t really what to type the whole word, for example LOL as “Laugh out loud”, OMW as “On my way” etc. people have been so attached to their phone that they don’t even consider of putting it away, that for teenager and adults don’t even bother spending time with each other anymore. Even though technology does have a huge impact in our daily lives, we will not have been able to deal with living without
Communication with friends and family has been with a cell phone for many years, but people have created a cell phones (which now people mostly use smartphones) that are much more advance to what they use to use decades ago, which now that fit right in your pocket. They have advanced to where you can short hand almost every single word and abbreviate while texting. In the essay Texting by David Crystal he refers these abbreviations as “Textspeak” (243). Textspeak was mostly created by young people who like to text a lot and don’t really what to type the whole word, for example LOL as “Laugh out loud”, OMW as “On my way” etc. people have been so attached to their phone that they don’t even consider of putting it away, that for teenager and adults don’t even bother spending time with each other anymore. Even though technology does have a huge impact in our daily lives, we will not have been able to deal with living without