These days, technology is everywhere. Things are made easier for us and one of those things is the cellphone. Through the cellphone, we communicate with our friends, family, and other more. We text to them to catch up with them and to know how they are doing. Most teenagers own cellphones and usually send a large number of text messages each day. I think that texting is also the same as chatting. Cellphone owners today now use abbreviations or shortcuts to save space and time in sending a message.
Many teachers, particularly language teachers, are disappointed with this. They think that texting makes a student have poor comprehension in their subjects especially when they see grammar mistakes, wrong spellings, and poor punctuation. Sometimes, the problem isn't with texting, but with the student himself. As a matter of fact, texting is a good way of practicing language because one can use shortcuts yet still understand what the message trying to say and it makes communication faster.
I also own a cellphone but I seldom use it. I only use it when we are travelling or for emergency purposes. Meanwhile in chatting, I am able to put more emotion to my messages. I sometimes put many of the same letter in a word like "heeyyyy" and it just shows how bored I really am. Texting or chatting isn't really that bad. As long as you know the rules in the language, texting shouldn't affect your formal English.
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