Text messaging

Life is a Highway “According to the CDC, each day, nine people are killed and 1,060 more are injured in crashes that involve a distracted driver” (“Distracted Driving in the United States and Europe”). A text message can wait. So many studies have been and are being conducted on texting and driving and most of the outcomes are negative. After reading this maybe someone that picks up their phone while driving will think about the consequences. Texting while driving reduces the attention people…

while on your cell and also the safety measures and problems they may cause like cancer. Cell phone safety: The argument does the use of cell phones cause cancer? And Texting while driving: Are you really that important, that it can’t wait? We talk, text, surf the net every chance we can get with our cell phone and not knowing the harm it can cause weather using it while we drive or just using it constantly to talk. The numbers that illustrate the dangers of cell phone use while…

Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of the telephone in 1874. From this generation on, the evolution of the phone has impacted our society immensely. Phones have gone from a simpler way to communicate without travel or write a letter, to everyone having them as a daily item in their pocket you can't forget. If something were to happen to your present day phone, it's easy to freak out, especially if you forget it at home, or drop it to the ground (or break it with a discus). However dependent…

goes on to say It’s not only at home that kids are multitasking, they are also doing it in the classrooms shown by reports by teachers seeing an increasing rate of cell phones and other electronic gadgets being used inside the classroom. Since text messaging during class isn’t just a high tech version of passing notes it its demand for attention shows that multitasking may impact student’s ability to learn as well. it…

A. Technology has advanced plenty in these past few decades. So much so, it has changed the way people communicate. With smart phones becoming so advanced, it is easier to let technology do the writing for them. Texting has changed the way society stays in touch with each other allowing social skills to diminish with time passing by. According to Solomon Ali Daniseh from the International Journal of English Linguistics, the frequent use of mobile phones, specifically among Wa Polytech students,…

Technology has progressed gradually throughout the years. From teenagers to adults, and even elders, everyone has a cell phone now; the fundamental way to communicate with others is through texting and calling. Text messaging has changed the way we communicate, but it also has changed the meaning of sentences, punctuations, and grammar. When we have to talk someone our first instinct is to call someone because its so convenient. Not only technology taking over but its taking over who we are as a…

It would be safe to assume that texting and driving is going to be around for a long time and have an enormous impact on the lives of many people. It has already began to impact so many lives with its collision causing chaos. So many people love to text while driving that it has become almost a type of statement for this time era. The problem with distracted driving is that if a child sees their parents doing it, when they start learning to drive they will want to do the same. If this chain…

Communication Skills.” Indeed, various ways of communicating have improved over the course of the year, however texting has setback those improvements because it is slowly if not, destroying effective communication. Dansieh states “There is no doubt that text messaging has some impact on the way people talk and write-some negative; others positive depending on the content and context” (Dansieh 222). Upon completing his research and based on the data he collected from various educators, it was…

You can type in all caps or put multiple exclamation points to show excitement or anger and in today’s society it is mostly understood. When you text though, you are not really able to get emotions across, there is no sarcasm or anything like that. I feel like if you end your sentence while texting with a period it is a sign of anger or that you are trying to be serious. The author of this article…

the road. According to textinganddrivingsafety.com, a comparison was made comparing how only five minutes of time taken away from the road to send a text would be like driving at 55 mph for the length of a football field without looking at the road. This comparison clearly shows that it is almost…