"Students failing because of Twitter, texting,"

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

Same here! The only reason I'll shorten something is if my text goes slightly over the 160 character limit. If it's going to be way over, I just send 2 texts. But I'll always change "and" to "&", take out some commas, or not leave a space in between a period and the next sentence before I start shortening and/or changing the spelling of words.

Thinking about it, I believe it takes me more time to edit my texts than it does to actually type them out sometimes

Same here! This is also why I call more than I text. If we need multiple, long texts then pleeeeeeease just call me. LOL