The Effects of Text Messaging on Teen Literacy

Text messaging can affect a person’s social skills, writing skills, driving skills. The money that people spend on phones and texting can cause financial hardship. Text messaging has begun to have a detrimental effect on people’s writing skills. They use inventive spelling and abbreviations. As most teenagers get used to short texting, some of their grades dropped to the spelling errors they make. So many teens get used to wing abbreviation that they write that way. Teenager’s writing skills have turned into sentence fragments because of the limited space that they put texts into sentence. “Among the 64 percent of students who say they incorporated text language in their writing, 25 percent said they did so to convey emotion and 38 percent said they have used text shortcuts A lot of students’ vocabulary and grammar is also affecting their literacy.”(How is text messaging affecting teen literacy?) The outlook of the teachers is that “The same Pew study, which included 800 teens from around the United States, said 64 percent of teens with cell phones have texted in class. Text Plus recently released results of its own survey of 1,214 teens that use its service, 43 percent of which have texted in class” (Is your teen texting in class). They seem to pay more attention to their phone than what the teacher is teaching. They seem to have the phones that will spell the word for them so they don’t have to worry about spelling. So when they at school they really don’t know how to spell in real life are hard for some teens. Text messaging is a method that is adapted to teenager’s social skills. Most teen’s relationships’ are put to an end with the help of texts. Teens seem to break up with their girlfriend or boyfriend with just a text message. More teenagers seem to spend more time texting than to hanging out there their friends and family. It even can prevent introverted people becoming confident. They may seem to think that things are just fine when they are not