What Are the Drawbacks of Texting that Affects our New Generation?

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In today’s modern day world, technology has evolved so much that people do not have to be face to face to communicate anymore, some teenagers nowadays prefer texting as their method of communication. However, many scientists and researchers are starting to believe texting is bad for the teenagers growing brain and how it may affect their grammar. Nonetheless, these are just claims and have no actual proof behind it, texting does not have any drawbacks that would hurt grammar of the new generation.
After hours of countless research and reading over a dozen of articles about texting, surprisingly, not even a quarter of the articles showed any signs of texting have a negative effect on teenagers. In the article “No Lol Matter: Tween Texting May Lead to Poor Grammar Skills” by Shyam Sundar and Drew Singel, both writers discuss the drawbacks of overextended texting in “texting language.” The claim they make is that the more texts you send out and receive per day, the lower your score will be on the grammar test that they conducted on students. They also believe that if teenagers receive too much text messages from relatives and friends, that will ruin their grammar because apparently teenagers like to imitate their friends. Even though tests were conducted, the source is not reliable because there is no proof that every teenager will attempt to imitate their friends and relatives. Also, there is no proof that the people who texted more and got lower scores than the others were just not as smart as the other students who did not text as much as them. Another possible reason that the people who texted less got higher scores would be because if they are not so focused on texting, they would be spending their time concentrating on othe...

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...hough text messaging does not have any drawbacks that would hurt grammar of the new generation, many other simple factors play the role of hurting the grammar of today’s students.

Works Cited

Crystal, David. “Texting: Why All the Fuss?” Language Awareness Editors & Publishing Info. Print. 09 Dec. 2013.
Wood, Clare. “Text Messaging Does Not Damage Children’s Written or Spoken Grammar” NuffieldFoundation.org. 05 September 2012. Web. 09 Dec. 2013.
Diaz, Yamalis, PhD, Lori Evans, PhD, and Richard Gallagher, PhD. “Anti-Social Networking: How Do Texting and Social Media Affect Our Children?” The Child
Study Center. 14 November 2011. Web. 09 Dec. 2013.
Sundar, Shyam, and Drew Singel. “No Lol Matter: Tween Texting May Lead to Poor Grammar Skills.” Pennsylvania State University, upenn.edu. 26 July 2012. Web. 09 Dec. 2013

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