"Students failing because of Twitter, texting,"

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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I have a full keyboard on my phone for a reason. I text in complete sentences and paragraphs.

Now that's a mouthful. I'm exactly like you, AlphaFrog, in that I always text in complete sentences. While it may very well save time to do the "short hand" version by using 'u' for 'you' and/or 'r' for 'are', I just think it really takes us out of being specific about communicating our thoughts and ideas to one another. The more we get out of it, the less we are able to communicate with one another. I think all of us grew up with slang as a second language , but each one of us understood the value of the written word when it was time to communicate to our teachers. Nowadays, it doesn't seem to be valued as much unfortunately.