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Negative Effects of Text
Messaging & Social Media
By: Kaitlin Tuohy

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Text Messages
 A text message can be described as a structure of words that
are sent from one cellular network/phone to another, whether
the words are often shortened. (Dictionary.com)
 Text messages have become some of the main ways of
communication in the world today, as people can easily send a
message in a few moments without having to see the person
face to face or talking to them.
 This is an extremely popular phenomenon with teenagers
today, as they feel that they need to be connected with friends
at all times.

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Text Messages to a
Phone
This is what an average teenager
phone looks like, as they are
attempting to make plans or just
having general conversation.

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Daily Life
 Teenagers and college students find it
easy to talk to one another in everyday
life. They are able to connect with friends
that they may not see as often.
 It has become a problem that during
school teachers are constantly reminding
students that they need to put away their
phones and pay attention during class.

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Negative Aspects of Text Messaging
 Text messages have their benefits, but also have negative
aspects that can be harmful.
 With everyone feeling the need to be extremely connected to
their phones today, they often have issues if they do not have
their phone with them.
 Teenagers are having trouble focusing in school and have even
been facing problems focusing in everyday life as they feel the
need to be attached to their phone 24/7.

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School & Text Messaging
 Students today feel that they can often multi-task while doing
school work, talking to friends online, and texting.
 They do not see that this is affecting their school performance
when they do not devote the time to study and focus on their
homework for a certain amount of time without constantly being
in touch with their friends.
 Parents have tried to limit the time that their children can limit
their cellular devices, but it is becoming harder as they
technology is continuing to grow.

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Text Messaging & School (cont.)
 Constant text messaging has become a concern to doctors &
psychologists as they fear that constantly texting is leading to
the downfall in school.
 Grades, performance, and stress are some of the concerns as
teenagers are often putting off projects until the last minute in
order to complete them. This is leading to not as good of
quality in their projects are worse and they are often unable to
complete them fully.

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Text Messaging Affects on Society
 It is found that most of the time that students English is
beginning to decline as they use a completely different
language.
 Words are often becoming abbreviated, which translate to them
not being used properly during school.
 Teenagers often sit there and have a conversation through cell
phones, rather than talking in person, even when they are close
together.
 Plans are now all made over a text message, rather than
talking in person or on the phone.

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Real Life Scenarios
 From a study done by  I created a survey and asked
MSNBC, it was found that over people how much time they spend
6 hours a day are spent online on electronics a day and the results
or on a cell phone per yielded about 3 hours or more.
day, especially teenagers and
college students.  Out of these three hours, most of
the time was spent on
Twitter, Facebook, and Social
Networking Sites.
 This was all college students and
since they live in such close
quarters with friends, it was found
that they still spend a good amount
of time interacting with others.

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Social Media
 Social Media is defined as Web sites and other online means of
communication that are used by large groups of people to
share information and to develop social and professional
contacts. (Dictionary.com)
 These would include: Facebook, Twitter, Dating Services, etc.

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Issues with Social Networking
 Social networking sites lead to less face-to-face interaction and
more talking over a computer.
 It is often that teenagers do not always realize that what they
post on the Internet will be there even when they delete it.
 People may use false names in order to try and talk to people
that might be younger than them.
 Companies are able to track down people’s profiles, even after
they are deleted, to see the kind of lifestyle that they live.

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Cyber bullying
 While there is such a high internet use, people often a
too scared to say something in person, now might use
the internet.
 It is often that they pick on people that they know will be
affected by this or they know that they can bring down.
 While hiding behind a computer, they are able to use a
false identity to pretend to be someone different.
 Through Twitter and Facebook, people say negative and
hurtful things that bring others down.

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Work Cited
 http://borderzine.com/2009/10/negative-aspects-of-text-
messaging/
 http://americansocietytoday.blogspot.com/2011/03/study-of-
effects-of-texting-and-social.html
 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39890248/ns/health-
kids_and_parenting/
 http://www.bukisa.com/articles/102557_text-messaging-is-it-
having-a-negative-impact-on-communication
 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26teen.html
 http://socialnetworking.procon.org/#pro_con