Texting

Not everyone with a cell phone texts. Surprised? Well think about it, the generations before us didn’t even have cell phones or even for that fact, know what they were. I’m obviously talking about our grandparents, when party lines still existed (which is when a whole block of houses would share the same line).
Texting became really popular, at most, around five years ago. And even then it was not very popular to text. Ask teachers, they never use to be so strict about sell phones in the class room, but now they have to be because it is very distracting and a very easy way to cheat on tests or quizzes. I think that the most popular generation for texting is the students in high school and college, and maybe some of the student in middle school. I think this because our generation is basically what “inventors” are trying to attract and they know that we are the one who are consistently keeping up with all of the new technology. Five years ago when texting was put on cell phones, who would have ever thought that it would have became so big that they would have cell phones with miniature keyboards on them. That is just how, “high tech” if you will, we are, that we need a keyboard to text faster. And I’m sure in another five years, give or take, there will be something else that everybody “needs” to communicate. How much more “high tech” can we get, we already have a mp3 player, internet with keyboard, and games, all in a cell phone, what else could we possibly come up with?
Now even parents want to learn how to text so that they can be “in the loop” with their children. Some parents are even texting their kids at school distracting them, wanting them to text back what they are doing. Well its kind of common sense what they are doing when they are at school. Even as a pretty big texter myself, I find that this is getting way “too popular”, and needs to decline some. You cannot even walk into a classroom anymore without finding at least one-person texting constantly. I think that parents should be a little stricter with their child’s text messaging. Also they should not instigate a conversation while the child is at school. I find that the teachers policies are quite fare, some teachers threaten that they will confiscate the phone if it is visible to them in the classroom. Other teachers are even stricter with the rules and threaten to take the battery of the phone for the entire semester if seen being used during class. I find it incredibly rude to text during class because you are there to learn and I’m sure that whatever you are texting can wait until after class to be said.