Is Texting A Bad Thing?

I completely disagree with this, I don’t think that texting is destroying our writing skills. Text language was created simply because they used to have to pay for every letter sent in a text and so instead of spelling out something like “by the way,” they shortened it with “btw.” The cost of those three letters is a lot less than the entire eight letters. See the text language was created just to save money and now that it isn’t to save money, most people don’t use text language. My father was a high school dropout and so he isn’t the greatest when it comes to spelling, but when he texts, he wants to spell things right. My father wants to know how to spell things when he texts and I think that’s a great example of how texting doesn’t kill language. I think texting improves the way people understand words. I also think texting isn’t its own language because the abbreviations have since gone away. Many abbreviations aren’t used anymore. I use about two abbreviations when I text and that is “lol” and “btw.” Abbreviations are easier sometimes, but I like writing and so abbreviating a word is stupid to me. When I text, I spell out every word other than the two abbreviations I’ve already stated. The belief that students would use the text language in essays is absurd, I use the word “y’all” when I talk and I have never used that word in a paper. Kids aren’t stupid, they know what words can or can not be used in a formal matter. I mean a lot of kids use curse words, but you would never see that in a paper because they know those words aren’t acceptable in a paper. Texting isn’t its own language and it certainly doesn’t make kids bad writers.