Texting And Society

Many people find ways to blame technology and its effects on society. The topic of texting and its effects on society has been a hot topic both on the internet and television. The internet is an innovator and we can see how popular things like text/chat programs were in the past, or how a social media platform like twitter is. Since you are not communicating face to face it’s hard to grab someone’s attention, so people want to be able to get their readers attention.” “Another way they do it is by condensing their message into shorter way and this is because no one want’s to read through tons of information when their message could not be shortened to a few words” (John, 1). This idea of condensing has led to creation of acronyms as a way to …show more content…
(Crystal) Given the literacy development possible with fan fiction, the social nature of texting could be explored as a way to achieve the same benefits. Since some research that texting has no negative effects and if texting has no detrimental effect on spelling, and actually improves literacy development, then the role of mobile-based texting is significant for education. Also on the other side people believe that teaching the importance of differentiating among text talk and the English language. Another thing that Vosloo, a mobile learning expert, explains is that teaching the importance of context to students when writing is not a new concept, “Teachers have always corrected learners when they use slang in conversation or poor grammar and misspellings in written work” (Vosloo). So you have the one side who, like me, agree that believes text talk has created too much of a dependence and has caused an incline of spelling and grammar knowledge of the English language. Others believe that texting is a learning tool and increases in literacy skills and