Even though the said purpose for telephones is to allow people to speak to eachother from afar, it has becoming increasingly popular to textmessage someone instead. This shift from speaking to writing can be seen as both a good and bad thing. Is this just society reverting back to its more classic days of letter writing or is it just one more step of our society slowly becoming more and more impersonal and disconnected? One of the apparent benefits of textmessaging is that you can carry on a conversation while proceeding with our day to day activities. Once again our society's need to be constantly moving and progressing harms something as simple as taking the time to talk to one another. talk, not text. Text messaging also allows people to withhold their true emotions. You can take advantage of the lack of true personality expressed via text message. say you're happy when you are actually upset. say you're one place, while you are actally somewhere else. be faker than the hard plactic of the cellphone itself.
Why rely on vague categoric terms like people, someone, thing, and society? These terms make it harder for readers to fill in meaning? (Remember Gunther Kress' notion that words are vessels waiting to be filled with meaning?) Add dimension by choosing the right words. Ask questions of your text. After you right, retrace your footsteps and follow along as a reader, wondering all the while? is this word truly communicative?
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