4 thoughts on “Email is over? Teens send 3,000 texts a month?”
What do you say in 30 text messages?
Pretty much what you could say in 5 or so emails, exept if you dont have the technology you cant write emails on the move….
Teenagers will talk about anything for any reason. Just talking is the point. I’ll admit to a subset who don’t care about the umbilicell as much as their chattier counterparts, but, in general, texting is obsessive for teens.
Cannot tell you how intrusive this is in the classroom. A couple of years ago a vice principle went through two classrooms next to mine and plucked up 8 pounds of cells phones –just from kids who actually had them OUT and were texting with them –while the VP was in the room! (Obviously they can’t command them from kids who have their cells safely stashed in their purses.)
Left teaching in part because I have better uses for my time than cell phone policing.
I sent 73 emails. Eight were to, or copied to, Chelsea. Six were to, or copied to, Anatoly. Five were to a journalist who is interviewing me. Many were to readers.
What do you say in 30 text messages?
I sent 30 texts today and im approaching middle age, i had this discussion earlier with a friend who hates ‘txt speak’ i feel ( as do some linguists) that txt speak, that sometimes annoying abbreviated language enriches the english language rather than takes away. Text, and twitter has its place as a way of communicating, there is a time and place for phone calls, email and face to face its getting the mix right thats important.
What do you say in 30 text messages?
Pretty much what you could say in 5 or so emails, exept if you dont have the technology you cant write emails on the move….
Teenagers will talk about anything for any reason. Just talking is the point. I’ll admit to a subset who don’t care about the umbilicell as much as their chattier counterparts, but, in general, texting is obsessive for teens.
Cannot tell you how intrusive this is in the classroom. A couple of years ago a vice principle went through two classrooms next to mine and plucked up 8 pounds of cells phones –just from kids who actually had them OUT and were texting with them –while the VP was in the room! (Obviously they can’t command them from kids who have their cells safely stashed in their purses.)
Left teaching in part because I have better uses for my time than cell phone policing.
I sent 73 emails. Eight were to, or copied to, Chelsea. Six were to, or copied to, Anatoly. Five were to a journalist who is interviewing me. Many were to readers.
What do you say in 30 text messages?
I sent 30 texts today and im approaching middle age, i had this discussion earlier with a friend who hates ‘txt speak’ i feel ( as do some linguists) that txt speak, that sometimes annoying abbreviated language enriches the english language rather than takes away. Text, and twitter has its place as a way of communicating, there is a time and place for phone calls, email and face to face its getting the mix right thats important.