Work Cited

Eulberg, Tyera. "The Language of Youth." Boulder Magazine. Brock Publishing, June 2010. Web. 4 April 2011. http://www.getboulder.com/visitors/articles_su10/teen-texting-language-of-youth.html.

Lenhart, Amanda. "Teens and Mobile Phones." Pew Internet. N.p., 20 April 2010. Web. 5 April 2011. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones/Summary-of-findings.aspx.

Grohol, John. "Teens text alot, adults worry." Psychcentral. psyd, 29 May 2009. Web. 6 April 2011. http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/05/29/teens-text-a-lot-adults-worry/

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"Texting." Faculty Speaks: technology, tweets and time. Web. 3 Apr 2011. http://www.gscvoice.org/2011/02/16/faculty-speaks-technology-tweets-and-time/.


"People at Risk; texting and walking." Web. 17 Mar 2011. http://cdn.pocket-lint.com/images/x1ry/people-at-risk-texting-while-walking-0.jpg?20100920-102952>.


Godinez, Victor. "Texting far more popular than voice calls for teens." Ebsco. The Dallas Morning News, 4/21/10. Web. 30 Mar 2011.

Schenk, Ashley. "Texting may be harmful to students writing." piercepioneer.com. Pierce Pioneer College Newspaper, 10/8/08. Web. 29 Mar 2011.

http://www.brandon-hall.com/workplacelearningtoday/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Text-chart.jpg

"Text Messaging and its Effect on Teens Grammar.". Web. 24 Mar 2011. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science

"What’s Worse For Kids, Texting And Social Networks Or TV?." Web. 22 Mar 2011.http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2006.00028.x/full


"Texting May be Taking a Toll." Web. 14 Mar 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26teen.html


"IMing, Text Messaging, and Adolescent Social Networks." Web. 14 March 2011. http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/cell-phones-key-to-teens-social-lives-47-can-text-with-eyes-closed-6126/

"Cell Phones Key to Teens’ Social Lives." Web. 21 Mar 2011. http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3317615/wordle

“Texting teens future away.” Web. 1 April 2011. http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3428414/worlde_2

Reflection Paragraph on Sources

The sources I used were very helpful in getting more reliable research to use for my project. I typially tended to use articles and real-life stories for my project to get the idea of how broad this problem is around the world. Fortunately, it was very easy for me to find stories, articles, and information about my topic. This is because, they information I got were true.

Reflection Paragraph on Process

Throughout the whole process of working on my blog, I have learned a plentious amount of information that I had gotten from my research. Doing this project, is a great and fun way to learn about your topic. Personally, I have contributed to my project 100% because it was very interesting learning about the things that could happen from texting. Because of the information I gained, this is has influenced me to think about the next time I text, and say, "Is this really necessary to do?"

Wordle # 2 based on key terms

The wordle I created gives a brief message of the factors texting can include. It shows words like: health, teenagers, mind-controlling, and many others that are important to my blog. I think it is important to learn how texting is horrible for the teens these days; my wordle can give them the information they need.

Reflection paragraph on findings

Throughout this whole process, I have learned information that even I did not know occurred from texting. I have found that texting is not only a health problem, but it also is a social and communication problem for teenagers. Because teens are at the age of leaning away from parents, they are brought to the idea that texting is a better way of communicating, than the on-going interactions with parents. I found this to be the most interesting information because it is in fact true. Therefore, texting has become a big part of teenagers’ lives today. The amount of teens texting has increased dramatically over the years of how much more teens are texting than calling, or emailing. All of my information I have gotten has benefited to why I think the amount of texting should be lessened for teens. There are many other ways teenagers can talk, and communicate with others; it should be safer and healthier for them. The usage of a cell phone is one thing, but how you use it and why you do is another.

Finding Paragraph # 3

Why do teens text so much? Is it a social problem, or is it just fun? For example, “a 14-year-old girl sends a classmate a text message, the recipient probably can’t tell whether she’s blushing or uncomfortable,” says Kutner. “Thus, she can raise issues that she might not feel secure enough to speak or interact in a face-to-face conversation.” This answers my question of what the problem may be for some teens as to why they text so much. Teens need to communicate more, and interact with people in face to face conversations, because they need it for future experiences in life, like jobs. “Adolescents are using texting the way earlier generations used the telephone; they could check with their friends whether they’d perceived social situations and their implications in the same way,” notes Lawrence Kutner, Ph.D., co-director of the Center for Mental Health and Media at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. If teenagers’ do not interact with others, they will not be able to go through life like normal people would. Obviously you cannot text at your job 24/7, so they should stop now!

Grohol, John. "Teens text alot, adults worry." Psychcentral. psyd, 29 May 2009. Web. 6 April 2011. http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/05/29/teens-text-a-lot-adults-worry/

Finding Paragraph # 2

“Cell-phone texting has become the preferred channel of basic communication between teens and their friends, and cell calling is a close second. Some 75% of 12-17 year-olds now own cell phones, up from 45% in 2004.” Cell phones, I think, texting plays a huge role in teenagers’ lives today. I believe it is taking over their social communication. “Fully 72% of all teens2 – or 88% of teen cell phone users — are text-messagers’.” Because most teens text, they then are now in risk for all of those health problems that come with texting. In my opinion, I think teens are texting more frequently now than in previous years because phone companies are making new, and improved phones. The phones offer everything teenagers’ need, so I think they choose to not talk or interact with other people. “Among cell-owning teens, using the phone for calling is a critically important function, especially when it comes to connecting with their parents. But teens make and receive far fewer phone calls than text messages on their cell phones.” Therefore, this becomes a social problem, because teens are making lesser calls to friends, and even family members.


Lenhart, Amanda. "Teens and Mobile Phones." Pew Internet. N.p., 20 April 2010. Web. 5 April 2011. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones/Summary-of-findings.aspx.

Finding Paragraph #1

Many teens and parents are unaware of the diseases or effects of texting frequently. MY question to them is: Why would you endanger your very own child to the problems that could occur in their life later on and hurt them? Their parents often can’t decipher them, and a huge chunk of teens’ social interactions go unsupervised. “Is texting getting out of hand?” Parents are not the ones who get theses horrible problems that their child gets later in their future. I think they should step up and help their child now before it is too late. “The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project reported in April that 72 percent of all 12-to-17-year-olds in the country are now regular text messagers, sending on average 1,500 texts a month. But as more and more teenagers’ text more and more frequently, parents fret about how to accommodate texting in their families and homes.” They do not need to accommodate texting into their everyday live; they need to take it out their lives. “The vast majority of parents concede that using screen media is part of what it means to be a young person today, and they don’t want to deprive their children.” Do you think they would change their mind if they actually knew what would happen? The answer is most parents would change their mind. I think they should act now, and not have to pay in the future.


Eulberg, Tyera. "The Language of Youth." Boulder Magazine. Brock Publishing, June 2010. Web. 4 April 2011. http://www.getboulder.com/visitors/articles_su10/teen-texting-language-of-youth.html.

Quote, Summary, Source Analysis, and Citation #5

“Boys typically send and receive 30 texts a day; girls typically send and receive 80 messages per day. The report found that teens typically make or receive five voice calls per day. So basically, teens send about 10 times more text messages on their phones than phone calls. Also, 64 percent of parents say they examine the contents of their child's phone. And e-mail is basically useless to teens.”
A problem that is now occurring is the frequent use of texting. From the quote above, teens send more about 10 times more text messages on their phones than they make calls”, this shows that teens are not getting the practice they need for speaking out loud.
I think this is bad problem for teenagers’ future nowadays because of texting. Teens are neglecting the effect of speaking out loud, and this can be very harsh for businesses they will have later in life. After all the, first thing we learned to do when we were babies was to speak.
Godinez, Victor. "Texting far more popular than voice calls for teens." Ebsco. The Dallas Morning News, 4/21/10. Web. 30 Mar 2011. .

Quote, Summary, Source Analysis, and Citation #4

“A new language created by teens has evolved over the years, bringing to educators' attention the possible negative or positive aspects of it. Educators debate whether this electronically abbreviated version of English, known as texting, affects students' formal writing in class or simply encourages communication.”
The new language of texting has been causing some controversy to teachers, professors, and educators. The language of texting is a shorter way of writing a word out, and making abbreviations to certain words. Teenagers have said texting with abbreviations is quicker and are easier than having to write out the word. Some educators have discussed with one another that texting could be beneficial to teenagers because they can get the practice of writing. But, other educators say it is very bad, because teenagers are writing in “codes”, which is not very helpful to their writing habit.
Although this could be easier and quicker for teenagers, it reflects back to their writing skills and they could take in that habit of writing in abbreviations. Therefore, I think the new language of texting from teens is not very helpful to writing if they only use codes to shorten their words.
Schenk, Ashley. "Texting may be harmful to students writing." piercepioneer.com. Pierce Pioneer College Newspaper, 10/8/08. Web. 29 Mar 2011. .

Picture, Summary, and Citation #3

This picture relates to my topic because the person who is texting, is obviously not paying attention to his school work. Because he is not paying attention like he or she should be, his grades may soon collapse because he had not listened to his assignments. It has been proven that when teens text, they tend to block out any information that is given to them while texting.

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Graph/chart/map and Citation

This picture relates to my topic because it shows how broad texting is becoming nowadays to teens. Texting is used more than emails, from the graph above. My blog benefits from this because it also shows how important it is to lower the texting rate because it is bad for them, from my previous posts about the health part of texting.


http://www.brandon-hall.com/workplacelearningtoday/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Text-chart.jpg

Quote, Summary, Source Analysis, and Citation #3

“In your opinion, is texting good for or an enemy of grammar? Text messaging has surely given our society a quick means through which to communicate, taking out the need for capitalization, punctuation, and the use and knowledge of sentence structure and the detail that makes a good statements great.”


This quote explains that texting causes teens’ to have a “new” form of writing that does not coincide with the regular use of English grammar like punctuation and capitalization. Texting has made educators suggest that this is the new age form of messaging that may be hindering todays’ teens’ abilities of writing and social skills. Many teachers say teenagers’ carry over their text message writing towards their school assignments.


I think if teens continue to text, their grades will fall tremendously, and they obviously will lack the ability of writing and/or speaking skills that is not correct. I, myself do not use any special format of texting, I use the same grammar techniques that I would, as if I were writing an essay. Other teenagers’ should too!


"Text Messaging and its Effect on Teens Grammar.". Web. 24 Mar 2011. .

Picture, Caption, Citation # 2

Teens' may have been brought up to texting. The image above shows, and also gives you a visual representation as to how the world is becoming from texting so much. As seen in the little girl is "zoned" into the phone, not knowing that she is hurting herself because she's very young. I think little kids should not be able to use cell phones because they are that young and do not know any better.


"What’s Worse For Kids, Texting And Social Networks Or TV?." Web. 22 Mar 2011. .

Quote, Summary, Source Analysis, and Citation # 2

“They do it late at night when their parents are asleep. They do it in restaurants and while crossing busy streets. They do it in the classroom with their hands behind their back. They do it so much their thumbs hurt. The phenomenon is beginning to worry physicians and psychologists, who say it is leading to anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation.”
This quote is saying that because teens’ text, physicians are beginning to worry about how teens’ will be affected in their future. Because they text so frequently, and pretty much everywhere, it can cause distraction in school, falling grades, and sleep deprivation. An example is from a teenage girl, who texted so much her thumbs started to ache. Therefore, now she does not text as much as she used to.
I think teens’ who text everywhere and ALL the time should know how they are hurting themselves. It may seem like fun, but in the long run, they could face some harsh problems. This is a problem all around that is soon going to be seen everywhere. Psychologists are studying what effects teens’ will face, and before they get to bad, I think teens should lower the amount of texting they do.
"Texting May be Taking a Toll." Web. 14 Mar 2011. .

Picture, Caption, Citation #1

The girl in this picture shows how texting is effecting the World. As you can see, she is not paying attention to what is going on around her. This relates to my topic because, when teens have their phones, and are texting, they do not pay attention one hundred percent to what is going on out side their "texting life", or the dangers that could happen. The girl in this photo is walking and texting, meanwhile, there could be a car coming her way, but she would not know.


"People at Risk; texting and walking." Web. 17 Mar 2011. http://cdn.pocket-lint.com/images/x1ry/people-at-risk-texting-while-walking-0.jpg?20100920-102952>.

Quote, Summary, Source Analysis, Citation

“Socially interactive technologies (SITs), such as instant messaging and text messaging, are beginning to redefine the social networks of today’s youth. By offering fast-paced, inexpensive, online communication, SITs allow for new online youth social networks to form and evolve.”
This quote basically says texting, and the usage of instant messaging is now redefining the social network of today’s youth. It also means it is changing the way teens are living and how they are socially inactive.
Having teens’ text or instant message, are ruining their communication future, and how they will be in life. Therefore, these online networks, in turn, may affect the offline social and friendship networks in which youth are immersed, and no longer talk to people face to face. It appears as though youth may have similar social uses for text messaging as they have for instant messaging (IM), email, and mobile phones; text messaging may often be used in conjunction with these other technologies in multitasking. Socially Interactive Technologies are becoming broader in the World nowadays, and I think it can result in being very bad for teens’ future outlook. Email and text messaging allow for rapid, asynchronous communication within one’s peer network; IM allows for synchronous communication among many friends at once said the article. Texting and the use of technology is changing the way teenagers live, and how their being changed because of texting. I think if teens would put their phones down, they could actually "live life" to the fullest, and not be focused on the dangers of texting.
"IMing, Text Messaging, and Adolescent Social Networks." Web. 14 March 2011..

Wordle #1based on link

This wordle represents how teens are being affected by using cell phones. The wordle contains words like: health, percentages, global, and mobile. I think these words are most effective in this case because teenagers’ health is being affected by texting. Also, this problem is very global and the percentages of how many teens’ text are enormous.


"Cell Phones Key to Teens’ Social Lives." Web. 21 Mar 2011. .

Preliminary Links

http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/cell-phones-key-to-teens-social-lives-47-can-text-with-eyes-closed-6126/


This website or link is brought by Marketing  Charts that have reliable information and facts about teenagers texting. The website explains the future for teens, how they are being effected by cell phones today. The facts and surveys confirm that the information is true, and it also shows how teens are acting today because of technology, such as cell phones, which is one of the most used.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26teen.html


This website is funded by The New York Times Company,
 health part. Psychologists and physicians are studying the effects of texting, and they say texting is causing teens to take a toll, because it can cause sleep deprivation, falling grades, and distraction in school. This site has great information, containing the health future for teens that text frequently.


http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2006.00028.x/full


Socially Interactive Technologies, such as texting, are beginning to redefine the social networks of todays' youths. This was said from online sources, and people. They said that teens are focusing too much of texting, and talking on phones that their social network of face to face talking will be immersed.


 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science? (Scholar google)


This website has given valuable information about the effects of teens texting. It not only plays a big role in sleep, health, and school, but it also plays a bigger role when teens drive. It is very dangerous for teens to text while driving, and it puts their life in danger. Basically, this website shows a view of how teens future are changing.

What I Want To Know About My Topic:

Why do teenagers text so much? Is it an emotional or social problem they have? Some teens text more because it is the only way they can get their feelings out. Cell phones are a way of getting information from  person to person, or talking with them. But, it also breaks down the original social interaction of having conversations face to face with people. How will texting effect our future for teens? I think the people around the world would be very autonomous, and not have any personality. Also, I want to know how teens are hurting themselves? Personally, I think they are hurting themselves mentally, and even physically because, being focused on something that is bad for you can really harm your body. Many teenagers assiduously text, making every word or message count, not caring what may be going on around them. They are showing lack of social skills, which is horrible. It is bad because you need social skills for just about every job. Although teenagers would find ‘not texting’ to be very hard, it would certainly benefit them in the end.

Texting Frequently

Texting Frequently

What I Know About My Topic

                                               

Texting may be really fun to some people. But, if you knew what it can cause to your future, it could change your mind about texting so frequently. From an article in Teen Vogue magazine, I learned that texting can cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in your wrists, and thumbs. Carpal Tunnel is like arthritis, but it can be far worse. This syndrome is caused by texting or typing too much on an electronic device. If teenagers’ would put down their phones, they could easily by-pass this effect. Another effect on teenagers texting so much is brain damage/ or cancer. Phones give off radiation, therefore the more they use a cell phone, the more you have a chance to get brain cancer. I know some teenagers sleep with their phones right beside them, and I think this is horrible because you should be relaxed when you are sleeping. The radiation from a phone is quiet dangerous, and should not be taken lightly!

Story Behind My Topic

Texting has become a humongous part of an average teenagers’ life. Everywhere I go, I constantly see teenagers’ texting. They could be at the mall, or at the park, and they would be texting. From my perspective, texting is great way to get a hold of people, or talk to them. But, I also think it can easily be taken out of hand. Take a look at the World now; most teenagers are texting these days. It’s awful, because averages of them do not talk on the phone, or have social skills. I think about what their lives will be like in twenty years. How will they be functioning later in life? One time I was in the mall, and a group of girls all had their phones texting, and walking down the mall. Because each of them had their heads down, looking at their phone, they did not see an elderly lady coming towards them. One of the girls ran right into the lady because she was texting. Obviously this was a mistake. But, it could have went better if she was paying attention to what was going on around her, not what was on her cell phone.