Have you ever have a count on the number of text messages that you sent everyday?
Sending text messages has become inevitable in today's life with the increasing popularity of smart mobile phones.
Before having a iPhone, the number of SMS that i sent was only about ten per day.However,
the number turns to 30 and even more after I am using iPhone. What makes the change?
Due to the limitations of most of the 'normal' mobile phones, users can only read one single message per time, whenever we need to refer to the last message, we need to search for it from a clumsy message box. I was even merely able to save 250 messages in my previous phone, so what I could do was to delete all less important ones to save places, it makes me more difficult to trace some of the old messages. How uncomfortable it was!
Therefore,I really appreciate the message function of IPhone!
I especially like using the text emoticons in my messages a lot, it enriches the messages as I can show my mood and emotion as well. The use of punctuation is also an important feature of text messages. Sometimes, the emoticons and punctuations can replace words. For example when I am angry, I will just send '!!!!!!' to represent my anger. When I am wordless, I will send '......'. It is time saving, easy and people can still understand you.
To think deeply, does sending text messages affects my English literacy?
Sometimes, I write abbreviation forms of words like 'u',becoz' when I am doing academic writing. Yet, I will always PROOFREAD my writing for a few times at least. The spelling checking of Microsoft word also helps me a lot when I am doing my assignments. Therefore, I think it really isn't a big matter for me.
