Is Text Messaging Replacing Human Communication?
Remember the days of passing notes in class, trying to be sneaky so that the teacher wouldn’t catch you? Now imagine that it’s not a neatly folded piece of paper that you are trying pass across the aisle at school, but a note typed into a select area of a cell phone. By selecting who you want to send that note to and pressing send, you have just passed that note on without anyone even noticing. Unless, of course, the teacher catches you with your cell phone in class, which may be cause to take it from you for the day. Nonetheless, whether in school, at home, shopping at the mall or studying in the library, kids are keeping in constant contact through their cell phones without ever saying a word. Welcome to the world of text messaging. In this day and age, most everyone is equipped with a cell phone, from Grandma down to a five year old child. Back in the days when you actually had to be at home to receive a phone call, people had to actually speak to one another, whether you wanted to
