Is Texting Taking Over Teen’s Properness?
I was reading Tiffany Young’s article today on iMediaConnection on how to reach teens through email. I started coming to some of the same realizations she did a few weeks back while out with family and friends. We were all eating dinner and my friend’s children were at the dinner table, pizza in one hand and their cell phones in the other, texting what seemed to be 100 words a minute. Their trick to being able to text so quickly while still getting their meal down was to abbreviate every word they could so their message would come out to something like this, “what r u doing?’ and “nm, c u 2morrow.” All this abbreviated texting got me to thinking, are teens going to remember to capitalize beginning of sentences and end their sentences with proper punctuation or is texting going to take over their daily responses to email and face to face communication? Young made a very valid point that if you get the right message across you can get the user to click on email messages however I’m still curious to learn what happens when that 89 percent have to hit the reply button? Yesterday we pointed out that email is here to stay but are the demographics and purposes for using email changing?
Posted by MindComet on Aug. 03, 2007