This is very rough — I mean, it will probably all be thrown out. I wasn’t pleased with the body paragraph I wrote in class, so I quickly wrote this up to have something. Please understand that my next copy will be much more organized and will be more of a complete draft than a rough draft on Thursday.
- Devin
So, what is this concern among scholars about? If you just look at the titles of some of the texts: “Technology Leaves Teens Speechless” and “Has txt kild the ritn wrd?” you start to notice some of the negative point of views that the authors have regarding text messaging. Crispin Thurlow, a professor at Washington University, complains that “webspeak” is having a negative impact on standard way of communicating. In addition, he mentions how teens are able to rethink and reread what they wish to say – thus not being able to respond spontaneously. Scholars are also annoyed with the fact that text messages are interrupting the daily lives of college and high school students. There is also an overwhelming concern that teens will have trouble expressing emotion in the future, because we as a society are learning to express our emotions in other forms of text such as emoticons or acronyms.
