Texting has become popular to the Philippine public. Almost in ever y of corner of the country, you’ll be seeing people having different brands of cellular phones, which are used for sending and receiving thousands of messages.
The country’s leading cell phone users are teenagers that seem to be a disadvantage.
Why do they text?
For them texting is fun, for they can make friends, gossips, feedbacks and etc. They even form a mutual relationship towards the opposite sex or maybe, sometimes, a same-sex relationship.
What makes texting a disadvantage for teenagers?
First, Teenagers become a texting fanatic. They spend money- almost half of their daily allowance, just to reload and acquire unlimited texting without even thinking that money, which is given by their parents, is not easy to earn.
Second, Texting became a cause of conflict. For some reasons like misinterpretation, since real emotions can’t be known by just reading, and when someone publish your mobile number without asking consent from you and then suddenly half of the crowd will be texting you as it becomes irritating and you badly want to curse or confront the person liable for it.
Third, Texting has its negative effects on teenagers by spending most of their time rather than reading books and studying their lessons. The texting activity continues even in class session thus make them busy and never pays attention to the teacher’s discussion. Also, it affects the way they spell words. Evidently, a high school classmate of mine was being scolded by my English teacher for she had written the word “BECAUSE” in a text message way of writing – “BCOZ”. According to our teacher, this was the effect of being addicted to texting.
Lastly, Teenagers do send non-sense quotes and chain messages. I have received a lot of those messages ordering me to send it also to my contact lists.
What makes it worse is that, God’s name is used as the subject. For example:
“God, I offer you my love, my soul, & my body to you. Please help me walk in the step of success…
If you love God, pass this to ten people and tonight miracle will happen.”
See that? In my opinion, teenagers should only be using cell phones for important business not by just any non-sense reasons.
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