Posted by: royce103gb | March 27, 2010

Text Messaging and America

As years go by and the worlds technology gets faster and faster, text messaging has became an ongoing phenomenon. In this essay I will show the effects this phenomenon has had on the people of today. From teenagers that constantly have a cell phone glued to their ears and the social networking to the effects of texting while driving. Cell phones have became the topic of many new laws and ordinces.

A press release announced the results of a poll today conducted by Harris Interactive and Pinger mobile messaging service. The poll reveals that 9 out of 10 Americans believe that text messaging while driving is dangerous and distracting. This has really been a craze throughout the younger generation. Other results from the survey stated that 91% of American adults believe that those who text message while driving are as dangerous as those who have had a couple alcoholic drinks.

“Merry Christmas” was the first words ever text messaged to a cell phone 15 years ago. Was a big difference from the first words ever spoken on the telephone. The first words being “Mr. Watson, come here.” Neil Papworth was then a 22 year-old engineer sent his historic greeting to Richard Jarvis’s

phone from a computer keyboard, since cellphones were not yet invented to type out and send individual letters of the alphabet.


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