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OMG! Parents Use Txting To Chat With Kids
from the what-a-concept! dept
Remember all those stories about parents freaking out that their kids were using SMS text messaging to communicate and how it was going to ruin their grammar? Then people started realizing that it actually doesn't do much harm as most kids can tell what's appropriate to use at what time, and could even improve writing skills, because it gets them more focused on the written language. So, now it seems that some parents have learned to embrace texting so much that they've found it's a great way to stay in touch with their kids, and to communicate with them even when they're sullen teenagers who don't like to talk to their parents at the dinner table. Many of the parents say their kids taught them how to text message in the first place (which isn't particularly surprising). Like instant messaging before it, it seems like this is just a better way for parents to use the communications tools that kids prefer, rather than trying to force them to use "old people's technology" like email.
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lol
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lol
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I disagree
Having read many kid's school papers, not my own kid's, I whole heartedly disagree. Grammar, spelling, punctuation, and spoken English are all taking a turn for the worse.
Or should I say:
WTF!?!?!!!!?111 Mi eNglish is teh r0Xorz!
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lol
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I have but one word for this...
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Re: I have but one word for this...
Zebra Outside My Gaze Looks Older. Let (the) Zebra Yodel (its) Age (in) Years.
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I fear for the next generation being "raised" (to use the term loosely). I volunteer at a local high school and you can already see it where there kids are rapidly loosing the "art" of conversation. Yes, before I'm flamed, they are capable of speech still, but it seems like conversations with them are these short, stocatic, almost "text message" like things. I was a chaperone for a debate team trip recently and every debate I lisdtened to was simple a bullet list of points, no eloquence, no compelling pros, just a list of "I am right because 1, 2, 3, ..."
I dunno, maybe I am just getting old but I miss face to face talks and I think e-mail, texting, chats, or whatever is a poor substitute for real human interaction (although I'm sure Mike will site lots of articles that say how great it is I will stick to my anecdotal evidence on this one).
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LOLZORZ ick
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Thank you for so eloquently proving how I think people are losing the ability to articulate well thought out ideas in more than simple "sound bytes".
March on MTV generation, march on...
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Some...
I accually own my own bussiness, and with that you must have grammer and converstaion skills. Just as TashiKid said, I personally have been playing MMORPGs since I was 13 and I currently play World of Warcraft and I roleplay all the time on these games.
My point is that simply because this is a problem, does not mean that all kids with cell phones are like this.
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Agree with Justin Moore
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The problem is with parents like you who view a cellphone as a mature person's object. It's a damn phone. Get over it Mrs. Suzy Wondermom.
Honestly, on what do you base the claim that a 7 year old kid shouldn't have a cellphone?
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BTW old people, we >40 crowd are right because...
A.) Language is language. It'll evolve as it does, and if that means going from the archaeic to the more pointed and direct, thats how it's going to be. I'm sure they had the same conversation about two hundred or three hundred years ago about how kids won't use Thou anymore, and that people were writing their S's weird.
B.) Just because we're not ex-D&D players who prefer to narrate every time we cast, doesn't mean we can't own you in AV. Glory to the Horde!
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A bunch of morons you all are.
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Re: Anonymous Coward
Spellcheck is your friend, use it.
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get back to me to ms. thing
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wat up
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HAVE A GREAT SUMMER
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hey
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