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Remember the days when you passed notes in class, trying to be sneaky so the teacher wouldn’t catch you? Now imagine that it is not a neatly folded piece of paper that you are trying to pass down the hall at school, but a note written on a selected area of a cell phone. By selecting who you want to send that note to and hitting send, you just passed that note without anyone noticing. Unless, of course, the teacher catches it with his cell phone in class, which may be reason to take it off for the day. However, whether at school, at home, shopping at the mall or studying in the library, children keep in constant contact through their cell phones without even saying a word. Welcome to the world of text messaging.
In this day and age, almost everyone is equipped with a cell phone, from a grandmother to a five-year-old. In the days when you had to be home to get a phone call, people had to talk to each other whether they wanted to or not. You took a chance answering the phone when it rang, not knowing who was on the other end of the line.
Then came the caller ID, which at least allowed us to choose if we wanted to pick up the phone or not. All mobile phones are equipped with some type of caller ID, which gives us the same option, but there is also a function in the mobile phone that can eliminate having to talk to anyone. It’s called text messaging and how it works is that instead of dialing a number, or choosing one from our list of contacts that we have inserted into our phones and talking to the person on the other end, we can simply write them a message. The person at the receiving end will receive the message, read it, and rewrite the message.
In the past, we called that writing a letter! Unlike sending a letter across the country and sometimes waiting weeks for a response, text messaging is instant. But like a letter, texting gives you a feeling of anonymity, without having to talk to the person you’re texting. This gives some teens a false sense of security, allowing them to text people who would never tell them in person. In some cases, sending nasty or demeaning messages to children simply to make fun of them or say things that hurt them has become a form of bullying. The best answer to that is that the person who is recovering can just hit delete and the message disappears.
Texting seems to be another way to avoid human communication, like talking to a person on the phone or face-to-face. Like any previous technology, it has advantages and disadvantages, but one thing is for sure. Texting has definitely become all the rage.