3. How does text messaging affect the way you think? How does it affect our communication? How is the writing that happens via texting or tweeting different from writing?
Text messaging in no way affects the way i think. i have only had the ability to text on my cell phone plan for about 2 weeks last year before the phone was stolen and texting disabled on my plan. if anything, texting makes me never want to misspell a word ever again, i consider it, along with devices like AOL Instant Messenger to be one of the devices responsible for the stupidification of America. Also, the incredible obnoxiousness of people who insist on texting while attempting to engage me in conversation literally makes me want to take a hatchet to their fingers, and if one more goddamned person bumps into me on the sidewalk because they were looking at their fucking phone instead of the rapidly approaching real world, I will be forced to take Charles Bronson-style vigilante action.
Texting has its practical purposes, but it is also a bastardization of real communication. By limiting the amount of characters, it forces egregious misspellings and incredibly derranged syntax, which gradually begins to take the place of real grammatical and speaking abilities. Aside from the fact that I would rather have somebody actually speak to me than send me a truncated missive about something i probably don't care about, texting is the ultimate paradox of communication. It is an extremely efficient means of communicating information that nobody gives a rat's ass about.
If i were a teacher, i would begin deducting one percentage point from a student's GPA every time i noticed them texting in class, without telling them. As it stands, i usually pimp-slap or pinch one of my friends if they whip out a phone and begin texting while i'm speaking to them.
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