Texting: The Price to Pay
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Mute. A world where nobody speaks. Silence. Every word, vowel, and conversation is sent virtually, not spoken. Mouths moving, people watching, people listening, one day people might forget how to talk if texting takes over and speaking is not practice. A pretty dramatic image of the effects of texting but the world could one day transform into communicating and speaking all through technology, with the influence of phones and texting. No one is born with the ability to communicate. Communication skills must be learned through real experiences, and then practiced. When a person texts, and ignores face-to-face communication, they are unable to develop these skills. Although it’s a valuable way of communicating, some people spend too much time sending messages by phone instead of interacting with others face to face. With the convince of texting people are taking advantage of it and starting to lose common manners like eye contact, being less interactive with family and friends, and using it to take the easy way out.
First of all, texting is second nature to the next generation; it’s used in mostly everyone’s daily routines, causing them to lose and forget a main common manner, eye contact. Since texting is an interaction between one person and a phone, an inanimate object, there’s no personal experience and need to act appropriately. This causes the general everyday manners to be forgotten like eye contact. Affecting the way people treat someone when they actually have real contact with them. When someone is talking to a texter, the texter is still texting they don’t have the courtesy to put the phone down for 5 seconds and give the real person (instead of their phone) their full attention. Another instance of how texting affects manner is when teachers are talking to their students. Texting or zoning out, the students don’t pay attention nor look at the teacher, missing valuable information. Texting causes the students to obtain the habit of no eye contact because it doesn’t require eye contact so the texter’s don’t practice it causing them to forget and not use it in their daily lives while interacting with real people. The New York Times research shows, “texting causes decreased attention span. Text messages allow teenagers to communicate in places, primarily school. It's fairly easy to hide a cell phone and text, and texting teenagers aren't focusing on the lesson at hand.” Texting shouldn’t be depriving student from learning but yet it is because of it’s overuse causing people to forget to have manners like giving eye contact so they can pay attention.
Along with the decrease of manners and increase of rudeness of texting instead of real contact, cell phones have grown to be big part of society causing addiction and neglecting family and friend time for making actual memories. People’s lives revolve around their cell phone that they can’t let it go or else they’ll feel “naked” as most teenagers and adults say. Although cell phones has it’s benefits like communication of child and parents when they’re a part, cell phones become a disadvantage towards family and friends, instead of hanging out they’re texting or even when they’re with each other they’re still texting. The New York Times studies show, “Texting puts teenagers in instant contact, and there is an outward societal influence that makes them think they need to be accessible at all times; text messaging puts them in touch instantly with the latest happenings.” Now days a normal dinner is heads down staring at a screen and the kids are texting each other or they’re friends and they’re parents are left our or playing on their phones also. No memories are being made. There’s no comparison to the amount of happiness and fun a person gets with being around people than texting with a phone. Now days the priority isn’t family it’s texting, texting can’t wait but family can, is how most people run. This causes them to be more interactive with their phones and less sociable with their family and people around them. A cell phone is only an object easily distracting people from creating memories and finding happiness.
No doubt, people are becoming more accustomed to texting than face to face interaction that they’re using it to take the easy way out since there’s no emotional interaction involved with texting. People are using texting to break up with people because they know they won’t have to deal with the person crying and all those other emotions since the interaction isn’t face to face. Texting is allowing people to easily communicate with someone but doesn’t allow them to have any emotion contact. Statistics show 54% of all teens through ages 12-17 text message and 33 % of all teen through ages 12-17% talk face to face. Less than half of the percent of teens talk face to face in this day and age. One of the factors is because there’s no emotional attachment with texting and it makes life more convenient of not having to deal with certain types of problems that would occur with face to face interaction.
Obviously, texting can wait. The cell phone will always be there but friend and family won’t. Priceless memories could be made but yet so many were overpassed. Reduce the amount of text messages; it will increase manners and knowledge. Texting pays a price. But there’s a choice.
Reflection
Common Core State Standards
W. 11-12.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
SL. 11-12.1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence
L.11-12.3: Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or stlye, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
This assignment has developed my six traits of writing through the use of analyzing articles. This assignment assignment shaped my writing into making me getting my ideas/ points of my paper clearer and more effective, organize my thoughts efficiently,and write with the most effective emotion to get across to the reader.
For this assignment I could've chosen the articles I analyzed more wisely. I didn't chose articles/topics that I was interested about and that I cared about. This was the only piece of writing that my opinion on this was very strong towards. For this assignment in particular i could've explained more with examples from history or experience, on the idea of acquiring language instead of just giving my opinion.
First of all, texting is second nature to the next generation; it’s used in mostly everyone’s daily routines, causing them to lose and forget a main common manner, eye contact. Since texting is an interaction between one person and a phone, an inanimate object, there’s no personal experience and need to act appropriately. This causes the general everyday manners to be forgotten like eye contact. Affecting the way people treat someone when they actually have real contact with them. When someone is talking to a texter, the texter is still texting they don’t have the courtesy to put the phone down for 5 seconds and give the real person (instead of their phone) their full attention. Another instance of how texting affects manner is when teachers are talking to their students. Texting or zoning out, the students don’t pay attention nor look at the teacher, missing valuable information. Texting causes the students to obtain the habit of no eye contact because it doesn’t require eye contact so the texter’s don’t practice it causing them to forget and not use it in their daily lives while interacting with real people. The New York Times research shows, “texting causes decreased attention span. Text messages allow teenagers to communicate in places, primarily school. It's fairly easy to hide a cell phone and text, and texting teenagers aren't focusing on the lesson at hand.” Texting shouldn’t be depriving student from learning but yet it is because of it’s overuse causing people to forget to have manners like giving eye contact so they can pay attention.
Along with the decrease of manners and increase of rudeness of texting instead of real contact, cell phones have grown to be big part of society causing addiction and neglecting family and friend time for making actual memories. People’s lives revolve around their cell phone that they can’t let it go or else they’ll feel “naked” as most teenagers and adults say. Although cell phones has it’s benefits like communication of child and parents when they’re a part, cell phones become a disadvantage towards family and friends, instead of hanging out they’re texting or even when they’re with each other they’re still texting. The New York Times studies show, “Texting puts teenagers in instant contact, and there is an outward societal influence that makes them think they need to be accessible at all times; text messaging puts them in touch instantly with the latest happenings.” Now days a normal dinner is heads down staring at a screen and the kids are texting each other or they’re friends and they’re parents are left our or playing on their phones also. No memories are being made. There’s no comparison to the amount of happiness and fun a person gets with being around people than texting with a phone. Now days the priority isn’t family it’s texting, texting can’t wait but family can, is how most people run. This causes them to be more interactive with their phones and less sociable with their family and people around them. A cell phone is only an object easily distracting people from creating memories and finding happiness.
No doubt, people are becoming more accustomed to texting than face to face interaction that they’re using it to take the easy way out since there’s no emotional interaction involved with texting. People are using texting to break up with people because they know they won’t have to deal with the person crying and all those other emotions since the interaction isn’t face to face. Texting is allowing people to easily communicate with someone but doesn’t allow them to have any emotion contact. Statistics show 54% of all teens through ages 12-17 text message and 33 % of all teen through ages 12-17% talk face to face. Less than half of the percent of teens talk face to face in this day and age. One of the factors is because there’s no emotional attachment with texting and it makes life more convenient of not having to deal with certain types of problems that would occur with face to face interaction.
Obviously, texting can wait. The cell phone will always be there but friend and family won’t. Priceless memories could be made but yet so many were overpassed. Reduce the amount of text messages; it will increase manners and knowledge. Texting pays a price. But there’s a choice.
Reflection
Common Core State Standards
W. 11-12.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
SL. 11-12.1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence
L.11-12.3: Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or stlye, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
This assignment has developed my six traits of writing through the use of analyzing articles. This assignment assignment shaped my writing into making me getting my ideas/ points of my paper clearer and more effective, organize my thoughts efficiently,and write with the most effective emotion to get across to the reader.
For this assignment I could've chosen the articles I analyzed more wisely. I didn't chose articles/topics that I was interested about and that I cared about. This was the only piece of writing that my opinion on this was very strong towards. For this assignment in particular i could've explained more with examples from history or experience, on the idea of acquiring language instead of just giving my opinion.