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Text speaking has been used by all teens and many people think that this is becoming a problem. Some people say it is bad because they do not know how to spell or read words, and some people say it is good because it helps teens become more creative when writing. Although teens become creative and can write better than teens than do not text, I am going to support the claim that text speech does harm the grammar of teens. Although it is fun texting these language shortcuts like “Lol” and…

Here we go again, it has started to sprinkle and now we can’t run the mile outside because of the DIRT TRACK. I guess we have to run it in the hot and smelly building. I also want to do track but my friends and I don’t have cars and we don’t have a ride to the track either. For gym and track students they often complain about having a dirt track. Most schools in Montana don’t have dirt tracks, but Havre High School does. For this reason HHS students have to practice and have meets at the middle…

The internet is changing our thoughts, minds, and behavior by saying that people around the world needs to look and act a definite way. It’s shaping who we are by changing what is happening around us and every human being in society. The internet has not made our lives deeper or richer because that is not the purpose of the internet, but it has made us closer to the people we love owing to the fact that if we have friends or family out of the state, people can utilize the internet to contact…

The informational and the intimate discusses the ideas of cyborgs and different identities and how we sometimes get lost within the internet from seeing whats real and what isn’t. We are constantly seeing people change on the internet with different personalities. They are behind the screen and no one can see who they really are. The social material production of new media discusses the social and different issues within the world of technology. I chose to focuses in on two different articles…

In the present, people are on their phones at almost all waking moments of the day. Face to face communication and small talk are a dying concept. People now days, need to put down their phones and communicate with their mouths rather than their thumbs. Garrison Keillor has many interesting thoughts on this topic. The article, The small-talk pleasantries we don't do much anymore, is about how we don’t talk to strangers and strike up good conversation anymore. Even in small towns, people walk…

Texting allows people to text someone without interrupting them, but also it is useful for communicating with others. Texting also has many benefits like being sneaky or quickly updating someone about something. If someone is at a party and wants to leave, they can just text someone instead of someone hearing them. Texting decreases the risk of someone hearing a phone call and hearing someone say that they want to leave or that they are not enjoying it. It is much easier to just text someone…

Some adults love being in style with the new trend of this current generation. What is the current trend of this generation? Texting is the hot trend for people this generation. In the story “Kids today: Why do we text more than we talk?” Liana Ross talks about the positive and negative side of texting. Also, she shares the concerns she has about texting and what it is doing to our community. Ross tells us the positive side of texting that she likes. “I like the efficiency of texting.” (Ross…

Turkle concludes her novel with the topic of nostalgia and how despite technology’s penetration into our daily lives, people, teenagers included, still tend to think back wistfully to days prior to the Internet and Smartphones. For many teenagers, texting, IMing and Skyping bring about mixed emotions. Yes, these technologies make it easier to contact their friends; they are faster and more efficient, especially when trying to cross long distances. However, they also “talk wistfully about letters…

“Does the Internet Make You Dumber?” In the article does the internet make you dumber? Nicholas Carr’s main focus is that the “internet with its constant distractions, interruptions, is turning us into scattered and superficial thinkers.” He’s trying to say that the internet has a lot of negative effects on our learning and way of deep processing. He gives three main ideas supporting how the internet is turning us into scattered thinkers. The first idea is that picture emerging requires velocity…

How Texting Is Wrecking Society In modern times, texting is a huge part of our society. But it has changed how people communicate for better or for worse. Author John Humphrys, explains in his passage “I h8 txt msgs: How Texting is wrecking our language”, how society is changing because of texting. The main arguments in his passage is “They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.”(Humphrys, 482). I agree with his…