How does txt messaging help’s people for convenience?

Sending text messages through a cell phone is an inexpensive alternative to placing a

phone call on the same cell phone. There are benefits to using text messages for different

segments of society. The only limitation is that the message must be shortened to 160

characters or less for each text message that is sent. This necessity to keep messages short

is why the use of abbreviated words is becoming more prevalent now.

The home user of text messages will find greater convenience in communicating with

family and friends. Parents of school children appreciate the ability to get in touch with

their children instantly. Young children can learn to use a cell phone for text messaging

purposes easily. The same goes for people with elderly parents; they can check on their

loved ones easily and quickly. In an emergency situation, a text message has the power to

save a life.

People, who may have found it difficult to use a cell phone for a phone call, find it easy to

send text messages. Deaf people are able to communicate effectively with others through

the use of text messages. With this inexpensive tool of communication, deaf people are

able to communicate effectively with more people, including emergency services.

Businesses are finding that they can create an effective marketing campaign with the use

of text messages. Customers may subscribe to a company s text message services to learn

about new products and services. Some companies will send a text message that serves as

a coupon, which can be redeemed by showing the text message to a store representative.

Businesses are finding that text messages are a very convenient way to contact their

customers with cell phones for various reasons. A business may keep in touch with their
customers to let them know when their order is ready or an appointment time is available.

Businesses also find that text messages are an effective way for customers to communicate

back with the company.

Not only are businesses using text messages to contact their customers, they are using text

messages to contact their company s workers. Work colleagues no longer have to stop

everything that they are doing when they send text messages to fellow workers, no matter

when either party is located. When an office equips all its workers with a cell phone for

text messages, it is easy to communicate with workers and colleagues easily without much

further expense.

A company of any size can benefit from adding text messages to their communication

toolbox. There are different text message services that make it easy to communicate with

large groups of people. It is effortless to send out text messages automatically, according

to a clock or calendar schedule. Senders can monitor the delivery of their sent text

messages. There are also interpretation services for text messaging.

For all the functionality that text messages gives to a home or company, it does not take

much set up to be able to send text messages. One cell phone or computer can reach

another specific cell phone by dialing the right cell phone number. Text messages may be

received by another cell phone or computer with Internet access. Text messaging is a

revolutionary way of communication that erases the expense and time associated with

making a cell phone call.

http://articles.directorym.com/The_Convenience_of_Text_Messaging-a1001600.html
How does text messaging can affect’s the behavior of a person?

Mobile phone text messaging is a potentially powerful tool for behavior change because

it is widely available, inexpensive, and instant. This systematic review provides an

overview of behavior change interventions for disease management and prevention

delivered through text messaging. Evidence on behavior change and clinical outcomes

was compiled from randomized or quasi-experimental controlled trials of text message

interventions published in peer-reviewed journals by June 2009. Only those interventions

using text message as the primary mode of communication were included. Study quality

was assessed by using a standardized measure. Seventeen articles representing 12 studies

(5 disease prevention and 7 disease management) were included. Intervention length

ranged from 3 months to 12 months, none had long-term follow-up, and message

frequency varied. Of 9 sufficiently powered studies, 8 found evidence to support text

messaging as a tool for behavior change. Effects exist across age, minority status, and

nationality. Nine countries are represented in this review, but it is problematic that only

one is a developing country, given potential benefits of such a widely accessible,

relatively inexpensive tool for health behavior change. Methodological issues and gaps in

the literature are highlighted, and recommendations for future studies are provided.

Is text messaging can change life?

http://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/1/56.abstract
Does the text messaging can affect’s the grammar and also the culture of a people?

Text messaging has become a popular means of

communication. It has had an overwhelming impact on

economic development in the global community, but most

importantly, in bridging the proverbial digital divide. It is

cheap, fast, and convenient. Yet, it has made us lazy to

write, destroyed our command of the English language (or

whatever language we use to communicate), and continues

to cause post offices globally to lose revenue. Text

messaging has become the sanctuary from which individuals

who detest face-to-face interaction can communicate; and

amazingly, the new tool for starting, maintaining, and ending

relationships. Above all else, it can be used against you in a

court of law.

Despite all of the economic benefits that text messaging

brings to mankind, I strongly believe it is diminishing our

ability to communicate and will adversely affect the current

generation (Generation Z or Generation TEXT as I like to call

the children of today) and future generations. The fact that

good old fashion letter-writing has experienced a decline, if

not a demise, should be of great concern to literate societies

since its replacement – text messaging – has done little in

the way of preserving/strengthening our command of the

spoken language and writing skills. Nowadays, you can

barely get high school students and even adults to write a

personal letter, let alone a love letter. We have also lost that

personal touch and thought that accompanied letters,

especially love letters!

When I was 15 years old, I wrote a love letter to a classmate

whom I had secretly admired since we were in elementary

school. At the time, I was very shy and a quintessential nerd,

so I took refuge in writing letters to girls. What’s interesting

though, is that I always hesitated to deliver those letters; so,

they ended up in my “book bag” or backpack. It had taken

me 3 hours to write that letter because I had to put a lot of

thought into it and thoroughly define every unique word that

I used. At that time, writing a letter with big words to a girl

was a way of impressing her. Amazingly, some of those girls

seldom understood those “big words”. The unfortunate part

was that I never delivered the letter to the intended recipient

because it was intercepted and read aloud in front of my

entire class by my teacher, who had found it in my math

book. That day at the beginning of class I heard: ““Dear

____,” (that was the name of the person I secretly admired).

She continued, “It would be infinitesimal to express how I

feel………” When I heard this, I almost had a heart attack; I

wished the ground would open. My teacher was reading my

love letter before the entire class of over 35 students. In my

embarrassment, I missed several recesses and totally

avoided the school’s library. Moreover, my classmates had a

week’s worth of jokes about me. Fortunately for me though,

the same thing happened to a fellow student in another class

and I was no longer the focus of ridicule. I don’t think I’ll ever

forget that year!

So I ask, “Whatever happened to the good old fashion love

letter?” How did it become a thing of the past? My point is

that even as a 9th grade student, taking three hours to write

a letter was an indication that I had to put much thought into

it; that I wanted it to mean something to the recipient.

Today, what took me three hours to write could be

summarized in five letters in a text message: “I luv u.”

The art of writing has slipped away from us and is being

further propelled by text messaging. Texting encourages bad

grammar; some may argue that it has spawned a new

language. Initially, it was email; now it’s text messaging.

This “new technology” has changed the way we

communicate or interact with each other significantly. As I

always say, as technologists, our job is to innovate solutions

that bring improvement to mankind. Unfortunately,

oftentimes, we end up doing so to our own detriment. What

have we done to ourselves?

Recently, I read a posting in blogosphere in which the author

complained about text messaging. He received a text

message from his wife that read: “I 1 a d-4s”, which in real

English means “I want a divorce.” He ignored it because he

did not understand what it meant. But three days later when

he got home, he saw his wife (now ex-wife) and her

boyfriend moving her personal belongings to her car. When

he asked her what was going on, she said: “I sent you a text
honey.” Now, it’s bad enough to get a divorce, but it is even

worse to be informed via a text message!

Text messaging has also had a major impact on post offices

worldwide. The advent of the Internet and GSM has caused a

major shift from letters to text messages and emails. Text

messaging and emails are faster than handwritten letters,

which lack immediacy. Moreover, the cost of postage and

stationary have further propelled individuals toward the

cheaper and faster options: text messages or email. But

nothing replaces the feeling and memory that comes with

handwritten letters. Writing by hand slows the mind, forcing

it into a more contemplative state in which precisely chosen

words convey nuances of emotion that could never be

captured in a text message.

Letter writing or any kind of writing has to do with one’s

reading habits, which is on the decline among Liberian

students. The culture of reading still needs to be reinforced

in our schools. When I wrote the aforementioned letter, I was

in the 9th grade and it was a well-written letter with proper

grammar. Today, with the advent of text messaging, coupled

with the impact of the civil war on education, a

quintessential 9th grade student may not be able to write

anything that parallels the letter mentioned above. As long

as we do not improve our reading culture, there is no way

we can correct the decline in letter writing. Something has to

be done urgently about the negative influence of text

messaging because students these days no longer write

proper grammar; they “text.”

I am not sure how we as IT professionals or innovators can

fix this problem or if we can include programming codes to

existing cell phone software that will require users to type

proper grammar. For example, in computer programming, if

you type an incorrect syntax, you will receive an error

message when you run the program. Perhaps we can use the

same paradigm to force users to write properly when

texting. But I am confident that there will be a collective and

collaborative solution between IT professionals and

educators to ensure that the new generation does not cause

good grammar to fade away.

Text messaging has its place; it has had a lot of economic

benefits and has bridged the digital divide. It has given us a

cheap, fast, and convenient medium to communicate. But it

has also relegated our ability to communicate.

The questions we need to answer as a society: “How do we

solve this problem? How do we encourage/support the use of

proper grammar amongst our youth? Must we trade our

ability to properly communicate for cost, speed, and

convenience? This is a social responsibility! How can you

help?

http://www.liberianobserver.com/node/4482

Is text messaging can distract a work and study?

The popularity of text messaging has placed people in positive and negative

situations. For example, former Detroit Mayer Kwame Kilpatrick had his whole life

turn upside down through a text messaging sex scandal. He went from being the

youngest to the only mayor to be charged with a felony in Detroit. On the positive

side, text messaging is utilized as a source of information and reminders. Many

credit card companies provide SMS reminders on upcoming due dates. With the
increased popularity of cell phones with internet capabilities, people would be able to

pay their bills upon receiving the alert. In addition, one can send a text message to

Google to find out directions, weather, flight status, sports scores, etc. Services like

ChaCha allow us to answer any of our questions. All you do is send a question to

ChaCha and a live person will send you a message back, within a few minutes, with

the answer to your question. However, these convenient services, as well as general

text messaging, have its outcomes.

Many experts agree that text messaging has served more bad than good, especially

to the teenage population. There are obvious safety concerns, especially with recent

proposals to ban text messaging while driving. This obviously creates a distraction to

drivers, putting other drivers and pedestrians at risk. Even while walking, people

have most of their attention to typing their messages, instead of what's ahead of

them. Especially in busy places, I've noticed people still don't pay attention. The

other day I was walking by Times Square and got very annoyed at people who

suddenly stop in the middle of the sidewalk to finish a message. That, and a

combination of tourists, makes Times Square a trap.

Teenagers are easily distracted at school. Instead of paying attention in classes,

students are texting away. I've seen this happen a lot in college. Especially in high

schools, this leads to falling grades, and poor report cards. Some kids are up late

messaging their friends, which experts believe could have a significant impact on

sleep. I've seen a lot of people struggle in college because they use their phones so

much. I think this is because when you send a text message, it is likely that you are

in the middle of a thought. Thus, a response means the inclination to respond right

away, distracting you from other things (studying). I saw this happen at my school

library all the time. Especially during finals, it would take forever to find a table. It's

really frustrating when people take up study space but just sit there typing on their
phones. During group projects, there is always one kid who keeps pulling his or her

phone out to send a message. This creates a huge distraction from work and has

significant impacts. I've also read articles that provide cases of students using text

messages to cheat. Even though teachers and professors state not to bring phones

to exams, they never enforce the rule.

I would think that increased cellular phone use, especially for text messaging, could

have negative effects for your hands. The concept of texting is similar to typing,

which has proven to cause problems for many. Although text messaging is not as

comprehensive as using a computer keyboard, the increased usage may still be

enough to cause musculoskeletal disorder. However, data is very limited on this

subject.

What about the use of the English language? One would think the use of

abbreviations, short messages, and incomplete sentences could lead to sloppy

language skills. Although text messages are brief, they are sent so many times that

in aggregate, it could have an impact in linguistics. Many experts feel this way;

however, others present an interesting counter-argument. Text messaging may not

be all that bad. Some experts add that the use of abbreviations is a novel way of

communication that demonstrates dexterity and creativity. This method of

communication expands our language capabilities and demonstrates ingenuity. There

are cases in which people catch themselves using "text message lingo" in academic

papers, while causing no harm for others.

I've noted a few ways in which text messaging benefits individuals. One other way is

that this method of communication connects people. Many people are in constant

contact with each other. They develop a strong interest to know what's going on in

people's lives and share information that they wouldn't otherwise. Some
conversations, or at least topics of discussion, would never arise in direct dialogues.

Sometimes it's because we're too scared or forget later on. There are other

situations where sending a text message may be more appropriate then conversing

on the phone (in a quiet public place). Thus, it adds a lot of convenience and doesn't

distract others.

I have mentioned many ways in which text messaging harms human beings. I'm

fully aware that these interpretations are only valid with credible data and statistical

analysis. However, the rise in text messaging is a recent phenomenon, and not

enough data is available to construct definitive conclusions. Many experts have

developed a number of hypotheses that they hope to test in the near future. I've

come across a few studies, but found a lot of flaws that lead to inaccurate

justifications. Some studies sample just a few students from one specific high school,

which leads to invalid results. I chose not to share this data or conclusions for these

reasons. For a future study, it would be interesting to stratify data by type of cell

phone (compare regular phone vs smart phone and see if there is a significant

difference in effects - whether positive or negative).

http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Effects-of-Text-Messaging&id=3540152

Original article found at http://www.FitTheModel.com.

Does text messaging can cause accidents?

The American Automobile Association found that out of 1,000 16 and 17-year-olds polled, 46 percent of

them admitted to text messaging while driving. AAA also found that some teens receive and send as many

as 500 text messages in one day.

That means a lot of distracted driver could be on the roads.

Text messaging has become the fastest new way to keep in touch with family and friends. While sending

text messages is fun, texting behind the wheel is dangerous and can cause car accidents resulting

in personal injury orwrongful death.

Ohio State Representative Diane Fessler believes that the practice is so dangerous, that she has introduced

a bill that would make text messaging while driving against the law.

Similar to the consequences of not obeying Ohio's seatbelt law, the offense would cost a driver $250 in

fines, according to Toledo Legal News.

Our Toledo, Ohio personal injury attorneys want to remind readers that while technology can improve our

lives, some of our gadgets can be distracting when we're behind the wheel. The risk for a car

accident increases by 50 percent for those who text while driving, according to a study by psychologists at

the University of Utah.

Teens aren't the only ones to blame. Many cell phones have personal computing capabilities, such as the

Blackberry or the iPhone. Checking email, sending memos, and setting calendared appointments behind the

wheel can be just as distracting as text messaging.

Toledo Legal News also reported that AAA found that a driver doubles his risk for a car accident when he

takes his eyes of the road for more than two seconds, and that 80 percent of collisions involve some sort of

inattention.

It takes two hands to drive a car, and only two seconds to cause a car accidentresulting in personal injury.

Keep yourself and your family safe by keeping your eyes on the road and your hands on the wheel.

http://toledo.injuryboard.com/automobile-accidents/text-messaging-while-driving-can-

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