I definitely think most kids/teens text way too much, but I don't get why so many think it's any different than sending an email or even carrying on a phone conversation. It's really just another way to communicate. I don't see it as a better way or a worse way to communicate. It's just another way. I text regularly - and greatly prefer it over talking on the phone. And I'm 36 so it's not just kids! (Of course, I don't send hundreds of texts per day either - that's a little excessive!)
Kids and cell phones
LOL my kids text a lot , 21 and 24, I text some, but many of my friends can't cope with the newer phones. my husband texts the least but is the cutest about it. He was photo texting me pictures he took of my daughter in the marching band. With me standing right next to him taking the same pictures with my camera.
Martha
Songs, I guess I see texting as being different than emailing because of the "addictive" nature of it where kids are concerned. I'd much rather deal with someone via email versus the phone, but I'm not so crazy about emailing that I want to do it all day long, or type an email as I walk down the street, or send someone an email about what I'm doing every minute of the day...that's what just seems so excessive. Yes, it's communication and I can definitely see a use for texting for certain things. I guess I just don't think I need to communicate nearly as much as kids do!
Yes, I agree with all that. But I would say a lot of the same about adults and speaking on cell phones. Same as with Twitter. What am I doing now. And now. People would not say these dumb things to each other in person. Maybe that's why they do it this way!
That's why I don't twitter, or have a Facbook page, or a text plan with my cell phone! I reserve all the ramblings about the minutia in my life for internet message boards! ;)
Same thing with 'Rock and Roll', it should have been banned when it first came out! (lol)
Just curious if there are any teachers on the board? I am curious to know if any of the abbreviated style of writing that you do when you text has an impact on the writing and grammar of kids today? Yeah, I use things like "lol" and a few other acronymns, but for the most part I try to spell things out. I know one thing is for sure- I can barely remember how to write anything by hand anymore. It's almost painful when I try, and virtually unreadable. Everything is typed or clicked now.
I'm waiting till they sell better voice recognition software for the general public...
(Capt Kirk never had to type things out, he just talked to it!)
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I love writing by hand. It's one of the things that keeps me grounded, But remember when calculators became small and portable and became allowable in class? Everyone thought it would be the demise of math by humans. It didn't happen. People still know how to add and subtract, well most. I really thought there would be a major evolution of language when texting first happened. Less keystrokes to say u instead of you. r intead of are, etc. but then predictive text happened. So now the phone spells correctly like a calculator adds correctly. It's all very interesting to observe, in my opinion.
As far as safety, Time had an interesting article this week about the radiation emitted from phones. To paraphrase: holding a cell phone next to your head is somewhat bad, using bluetooth is better, texting is best. Boy, that was an ell of a paraphrase :)
I've found in my job, that voice recognition is superior, unless you sneeze...............................it gets so confused.
lol. The only experience I have with voice recognition is pretty negative- it comes when I try to pay a bill over the phone with an automated teller. Robot: "Sorry, I didn't get that" ARGH- I said exactly what you told me to say!
Also, no, I don't remember calculators ever being allowed in class....but that is another skill that seems to diminish with age and lack of use. I have troubles these days remembering parts of the times tables...and I was pretty good at math!
... yes it's true they do have some good ones out now. (☺)
- But I still want my car powered by Di-Lithium crystals. lol!
Noreaster....I don't remember calculators allowed in class either, lol. It was the kids after me.....way after;)
WC...Di-Lithium crystals???..Star Trek? flip phones=communicators "beam me up Scotty"
Remember when those doors opened automatically to the deck of the enterprise? I thought that was so cool and wondered when that would really happen! - now they happen at the supermarket!! - the flip phones, the computers that talked, (personal computers weren't readily available then...), etc etc.. lol!!
My granddaughter has a French penpal; they started writing when they were both about 11. I was amazed at the poor grammar and spelling that the French girl uses; for instance she spells "que" as "ke," and "aussi" as "ossi." I don't know whether it has to do with texting or what. You hear so much about the rigor of French schools, but I don't see any proof of it there! They do use the same type of shorthand for texting that we do, I've learned. There's a page of it in my Larousse dictionary.
That's interesting ggal.
Even with predictive text, kids use the shortcuts.
Maybe they don't have predictive text on French cellphones?
Sacre-bleu!!!
I went to school all the way through without calculators. All they had were mechanical adding machines. I considered myself lucky that I had a portable electric typewriter in college that had correction tape!! I desperately wanted an IBM Selectric with the type ball. man. the papers I could have written with one of those.
Martha
This article is in perfect timing for this thread..........
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/161576
Funny!!! I was just going to post that link.
Cool - at least 5% of parents are morons.
I think that number is vastly underestimated..., more like 40% from what I've seen!
Yes.
I don't post on DG when I am driving. or at a concert or a movie. and I post because I love talking about gardening with other gardeners who just don't happen to live down the street from me.
Martha
DG is about the limit of my media involvement. That suits me fine, I do have a cubits account as a back-up. I don't think calculators dumbed us down, I actually use math functions on a calculator that would have been left in trig class otherwise. I'm good with numbers and arithmetic but when it comes to anything abstract, I get lost. I'm not even sure I could do a square root on a slide rule anymore:-). Ric
My math instructor knew he had a challenge when he said Phi r square, and I responded with, No pies are round! LOL
We only used calculators for trig tests. Saved time and everyone had to have one. Teacher had at least 3 to make sure everyone had one for the test.
No calculators allowed in HS - even for trig. We just used tables.
I'm still using fingers and toes. Sigh