Texting and Writing

This was an interesting article because it's relevant! Almost everyone texts nowadays. It's the easy way to communicate quickly and efficiently. This article talks about if texting has an impact on how kids write. I believe that texting used to be A LOT worse. I remember when I first got my first cell phone everything was abbreviated. "How R U" and "Wats up?". Stuff that isn't even that long to begin with! But now that I'm older it seems like that has dissipated a bit. Atleast everyone I text now form complete sentences and (Thanks to Autocorrect) have correctly spelling. You could say this is because I'm older, but even my twelve year old sister uses proper grammar when texting, as well. So, I'd say that texting can definitely have a effect on our spelling, because spelling needs to be practiced or else we get rusty and become bad spellers. But overall, I don't think it really changes the way we write, necessarily. Even Cullington found in her research of college and high school level students that although they did use abbreviations quite frequently they did not use them in formal writing. This is important to point out, because it shows there is a distinct line between texting and writing and it is understood that some things are acceptable in Texting but not in Writing. I feel that maybe the younger kids, who are getting their first cell phones are the most likely to write improperly because it seems cool to them above all else. But, like everything if they grow up a bit they'll see theres really nothing cool about it and then it will be cool to fully form the sentences because they'll soon encounter... The Grammar Nazis.