The Importance Of Communication In Social Media

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Communication is a concept that people around the world use to inform each other about information. It is so widely used that people developed more than one way to converse. In social media, people use the internet, along with computers and smartphones, to post interesting comments about themselves or others. When you read the daily newspaper, the journalists are telling you headlines that are related to you or the public. In a college classroom, students who give speeches are using their voice as a communicative tool. All of these methods of communication are made up from society, and they are effective at making conversations easier to understand. However, there is one communicative device that is not as effectual as these, texting. It is …show more content…

Regardless of feeling, people want to make the texting dialect easier on their fingers and reading. Time is such a crucial part of everyday life, and making texting an easier task is one way to save time, but there is one fault. People have created a language in texting world that is non-understandable, using short abbreviations, such as “lol,” meaning “laugh out loud,” “btw,” meaning “by the way,” and “iky,” meaning “I know right.” These short phrases, if considered phrases, are how people save their time by pushing less buttons to create text messages and reading less words to comprehend quicker. Although this is a physically time-efficient idea, the benefit cannot apply to each individual. Everyone does not understand this new jargon, for it is not taught in public schools. In that case, the new texting language has a purpose, but it has no importance in society since it is not part of a school’s curriculum. It will be a waste of time to create a new language if it is not focused at the local or global …show more content…

People are restricted to opening and turning on their handheld device and reading the message word to word; however, there is an exception to the restriction. Some cellphone users are quick and efficient when using their handheld devices, so they could read a text message in just a matter of seconds. That being true, the reader still needs to take the time to open and read the message from his or her device. Those few seconds spent into opening and reading may seem like nothing, but they add up with each message read. In that case, it is better to understand texting as time-consuming instead of time-saving. To add on, the reader will waste more time reading a text message if he or she does not understand the unusual language used, that is “lol” and “btw”. Instead of spending a few seconds reading a message, the reader will spend minutes looking up sources to better understand it. A downfall like that makes texting an inefficient time-saving practice, for the time used to read could have been utilized for something

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