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Texting has become the preferred method of communication for young people and its use is increasing among adults. While texting enables quick and easy communication, it also encourages brief and superficial exchanges over more meaningful conversations. Frequent texters may have weaker writing skills and feel less comfortable with in-person communication compared to those who communicate through other means.

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Tugas Bing Habib.

Texting has become the preferred method of communication for young people and its use is increasing among adults. While texting enables quick and easy communication, it also encourages brief and superficial exchanges over more meaningful conversations. Frequent texters may have weaker writing skills and feel less comfortable with in-person communication compared to those who communicate through other means.

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How Texting Changes Communication

Texting has, in many ways, made communication easier by helping people avoid long, unpleasant phone
conversations and making a quick “Hello” much easier. According to the Pew Research Center, 72% of
teenagers text regularly, and one in three sends more than 100 texts per day. Clearly, texting is the
preferred method of communication among young people, and that trend is moving upward toward adults,
who are also texting much more frequently. While texting hasn’t been around long enough for
researchers to study its long-term effects on communication, there is circumstantial evidence that it is
rapidly altering the ways people communicate with one another both via text and in person.

FACE-TO-FACE COMMUNICATION

Texting encourages rapid-fire, single-sentence thoughts, but this style of communication isn’t conducive
to face-to-face communication. Consequently, people who text a lot may be more uncomfortable with in-
person communication and may even use their cell phones to communicate with people who are in their
presence. Parents often report that their teens text during dinner, and the friend who texts during a group
night out is a common phenomenon. The reality may be not that these people are being rude but that they
are uncomfortable with slow-paced, in-person communication.

SURFACE-LEVEL COMMUNICATION

Texting increases the frequency of small talk and can be a great asset to people beginning to form a
friendship; they may be much more comfortable texting each other witty one-liners than they are picking
up the phone and calling. But texting is, almost by definition, surface-level communication. When people
communicate primarily via text, they’re much less likely to have meaningful conversations.

WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

People know they’re using improper grammar when they text; it’s merely a shortcut that enables them to
relay a message quickly and effectively. But over time, the way we communicate—even if we know the
way we communicate is “technically” wrong—affects the way we think. The result is that people who
have grown up texting may have much poorer writing skills than people who regularly communicate
using grammatically correct sentences either in person, over the phone, or via email. Even worse, they
may lose their ability to modify their tone and style depending upon who they talk to. Many employers
complain that entry-level hires have no idea how to send a business email or communicate appropriately
to superiors.

IMPATIENCE AND INSTANT GRATIFICATION

Texting is real-time communication but is not in person. This creates an odd situation in which people
feel compelled to respond immediately via text, but they aren’t really participating in an ongoing,
progressively deepening conversation. The instant gratification of texting can lead to incredible
impatience, even aggression. But when people are in person, the requirement of communicating
immediately can be daunting for people communicating primarily via text. Thus texting can inhibit both
in-person communication and texting itself.

SOCIAL BOUNDARIES

Unlike phone calls, there are no clear rules about when it’s acceptable to text. And because texting
doesn’t result in an angry person answering on the other end, such as many people feel more comfortable
texting at any time and in any circumstance. The result is a decrease in privacy and social boundaries.
People may text in the middle of the night or while someone is on vacation and expect an immediate
response, because of the impatience texting encourages.
CONTEXT CLUES
1. Definition : is, are
2. Synonym or Restatement : , , ;
3. Antonym or Contrast : but, while
4. Comparasion : like , also
5. Example / Explanation : such as
6. Cause and Effect : Because
7. List or Series : Communication
8. Interface or General Conetxt : Gratificaition

CONCLUTION
Context clues is words are provide further information abaout word or sentence to help readers to
understand its meaning, Context clues can be offer directly or indirectly into text that’s difficult to
understand

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