Texting

I believe texting has its pros and its cons. Personally, I am all for texting, except for certain circumstances. I think that texting is a great, easy, and stress-free way of communicating with your peers or your family members. Texting is so convenient that anyone can send or recieve a message at any time. I always text my mom if I need to ask her something or if I'm in a place where it would be rude to talk on the phone, you can multi-task and keep multiple conversations going. It's a great way to keep in touch with everything going on around you. Texting does have it's cons though. It is a huge, huge distraction. If I'm sitting in my room working on my homework, my phone will light up and buzz and I feel some unexplicable necessity to answer it immediately. If my phone goes off while I am thinking about my homework, it completely ruins my train of thought. There is a simple solution to this; turn off the phone. It's really not that hard. Even as a teenager, I know that I need to get my work done. So when it comes time to buckle down and work on the things I need to accomplish, I know I need to turn off my phone. And I do it. Once I turn off my phone, it almost cuts my time in half. It definitely is a distraction, but it is easy to avoid.

This blog is in response to this web article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26teen.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=texting%20may%20be%20taking%20a%20toll&st=cse

I agree with a few of the things that this article says, but I feel that this article portrays texting as a terrible thing that could eventually one day cause the Apocolypse. Obviously, I don't agree with that. Although there are some bad things about texting, I believe that its benefits are far more important than its negatives.