Analysis
Strengths
SMS has been widely used by teens, teachers have noticed that the writing habits of students have undergone tremendous changes. Students are integrating short text messages or short forms used in instant messaging into school work. Teachers have to explain why it is unacceptable to use shortcut language in the business world, which becomes a problem. Texting and instant messaging not only caused language laziness but also created problems in other areas of adolescent life. SMS has many advantages, such as the ability for two people to talk without having to talk, thus eliminating the risk of hearing someone in public. In addition, you can have multiple conversations with more than one person at a time. When texting, people
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When we do not reconstruct SMS in this way, we may miss out on its complexity - that is, how do the words "LOL", "haha" and "slash" go away from the original meaning, not the empathetic and theme conversion. With that in mind, texting itself is its own dialect. As McWhorter puts it, if the brain is bilingual, then a two-way choice may be a good thing. Thus, the other good points of texting slang are multiple streamlined conversations at once. Everyone in your organization can answer a call at a time. Depending on the size of the organization and the amount of customer interaction, this may not be feasible for you. With two-way messaging, each employee can participate in multiple text conversations at a time, and can respond to new conversations when the first user spends time replying. Last, the advantages of texting slang are text message keeps the user in loop While social media can be a great way to communicate information to your followers, you may not have reached all of your users with any social noise. By texting, you can send news about your organization's updates, new services, and any information you think is useful to your users, and make sure they are able to read it. With some types of messaging software, users can reply to you and start a private conversation for any questions …show more content…
While texting it is usually impossible to tell the tone of voice that a person is using so sometimes things can be taken in a way other then what the author intended. Text message can get lost in the air ways occasionally usually leaving one party very confused. Many people use shorthand and abbreviations while texting, but since they use this so often they are forgetting that those things cannot be used in formal writing. There is also a limit of how many characters can be sent in a text message so if you want to have a long conversation with someone it is better to just call them or discuss the matter in person. Speaking or writing in a SMS may confuse people unfamiliar with the language. Many of the older generation who do not often use SMS text messages, especially acronyms, may not understand the message. For example, if someone does not understand the SMS language, you may receive a message abbreviated as "ROTFL" meaning "roll on the floor laughing" and do not know what the sender of the message thinks is interesting. Besides that, the other weakness of texting slang is Using an SMS language outside of SMS can leave a negative impression on the recipient in voice and email. When a word in the SMS language is used in an inappropriate situation, such as commercial email, it may seem unprofessional or simply misinterpreted as misspelled.