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When students go into high school, most of them will receive a cell phone. Of course, texting is a form of communication. Texting is very helpful in a way. Instead of communicating through a phone and just hanging up every time you need to go, you can just BBM or just text with a cell phone. With texting, you can make quick conversation that can last you forever. You can be talking about school one day and the next topic can be totally unrelated. It is perfect for making conversations out of school and out of the house, but keeping the phone in your hand almost 24/7 is really out of the line. The phone isn't your life and the art of languages are changing. Brb, ttyl, g2g, these acronyms makes our generation forget the correct spelling of some words. It even makes it more annoying when you write a whole sentence or phrase, only to get lol, or kk back. It makes the replying person seem really rude and not caring.
Then sometimes in life, you might run into a long lost childhood friend from years back, only to be texting every other minute. It is very rude to try to talk with someone, who doesn't really seem to be hearing what you are saying. Texting maybe really convenient but you have to know when to let go.
Five etiquette rules for texting
1. Look at where you are texting.
Not in the movies, and especially not when you are driving either
2. Consider the message you are texting about, maybe somethings are to be said face-to-face
3. Don't really text when you're with friends, it is really rude
4. Don't be on your phone everywhere, it isn't necessary
5. Have your phone vibrate when you get a message, all the noise a phone makes is a big distraction.
Vivien Tang ;)
