All Rise. Case # 2002: Text Messaging
"Mst f tym dey usd ds knd f lng`ge 2 tlk 2 1 anthr nt 1ly n txt bt even n wrtng ltrs 2." Have you understood what the previous sentence means? Or worse, could you utter or enunciate it? If you are a teenager or a member of the new generation, then you might have grasped the main idea of it. Otherwise, I bet you could. The previous sentence is one of billions of sentences that are being sent and dealt with daily. It is, indeed, the new language of text messaging. With the advancement in technology, science is coming up everyday with new devices that enable nations to communicate through. Cell phones and instant messages via the Internet are mostly the fertilized soul on which text messages are growing daily. Though these new technologies that are brought to us everyday save our time and help us accomplish the work easily, some people are decisive upon the effects these devices are causing to human beings, especially to the youth.
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English: Two women text messaging on their cell ph...
A multimedia message on a Sony Ericsson mobile pho...And since the youth are considered the main users to these devices, they might be victims to these new technologies. They become more addicted to use chat rooms via the Internet. So, they spend loads of hours awake chatting using their digits instead of their tongues. Also, the SMS (short message service) has become the appropriate and the fastest way to communicate with each other, which means that they are more exposed to heavy and strong electromagnetic waves that are emitted from cell phones. There have been fierce debates about blaming text messaging devices of deteriorating the literacy level of school children around the world, and increasing both health worries and the "digital gap" in societies.
The first issue is that both instant...