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Almalki1
Yousef Almalki
Kathy Lowley
English 201-08
10/20/2015
Teenagers and Texting Effects
If you go around and ask teenagers how many times do you
usually text in day, I bet that
the majority of the young people will say that they use it every
time a day. According to Mark,
among the 88 percent of teen cell users who text, three in 10 of
them send 100 or more messages
per day. Using cell phone are really important in a modern
society and it helps the parents to
keep in touch with their kids and even know where they are by
using the GPS apps. However,
there are some side effects that influence teenagers; it does not
give attention to the people
around them “accident”, and it leads to sexting, accident’s,

bullying..etc.
Texting and not being aware of what going around it is one of
biggest problems in
today’s society. Many teenagers’ text and drive or walk in
streets or cheching messages while
they are in streets or driving their cars. “For teenage drivers (or
anyone, really), texting while
driving is a bad idea. Texting while walking may not be much
safer. A new study from Safe Kids
Worldwide (PDF), a Washington (D.C.)-based nonprofit, found
that 40 percent of teens say
they’ve been hit or nearly hit by a car, bike, or motorcycle
while walking. The primary culprit:
distraction from a mobile device.” Alyssa Abkowitz. Teenagers
themselves don't appear to see
the association between focusing and staying safe. At the point
when requested that whether it's
typical cross the road with messaging or chatting on the
telephone, 63 percent of teenagers
who've been hit or just about hit said yes, contrasted and not as
much as half of youngsters who
http://www.safekids.org/sites/default/files/documents/Research
Reports/skw_pedestrian_study_2014_final.pdf
http://www.safekids.org/sites/default/files/documents/Research
Reports/skw_pedestrian_study_2014_final.pdf

http://www.businessweek.com/authors/55041-alyssa-abkowitz
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hadn't been hit. What's more, because of inquiries regarding
what happened when the teenagers
were hit or about hit, just 13 percent said they didn't look both
ways; 24 percent said the driver
was going too quick; 10 percent said the driver wasn't focusing.
Another article about how
messaging is connected with unfavorable wellbeing impacts
including musculoskeletal issue, rest
aggravations, and car accidents. Numerous studies have
depended on self-reported messaging
recurrence, yet the legitimacy of self-reports is obscure. Our
goal was to give a percentage of the
first information on the legitimacy of self-reported messaging
recurrence, phone qualities
including data gadget (e.g. touchscreen), key design (e.g.,
QWERTY), and messaging styles
including telephone introduction (e.g., even) and hands holding
the telephone while messaging.
Judith E and others said
Internet and American Life Project, 97% of young adult cell

phone users, ages 18 to 24,
engage in text messaging on their cell phones at a rate of nearly
110 messages per day or
3,200 per month [1]. Studies have examined the adverse health
effects of texting and
have shown that sleep distur bances [2-4], musculoskel-etal
disorders (MSDs) [5, 6],
traffic crashes, [7] sedentary behaviors [8], internet addiction
[9], and developmental
issues [10] may be associated with duration and/or fre-quency
of texting. Many of these
studies have relied on participants.(2)
This exposition offers a record of "sexting's" social worth and
social uses by looking at
big names' creation and appropriation of sexual symbolism on
Twitter. It contends that as an
aftereffect of mechanical union and the predominance of online
networking, high schoolers and
big names are utilizing "open" pictures of their sexuality to
remediate themselves in a mold that
produces a particular type of client created capital. At last, this
point of view is utilized to
contend that the uneasiness encompassing secondary school-age
sexters has less to do with

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adolescents reporting their sexuality than it does with the ways
that new types of content based
media verbalize the libidinal status of high school sexuality in
contemporary society. Curnutt,
Hugh mentioned out “Not all of the coverage of sexting assumes
that the activity is harmful. In a
recent Wall Street Journal article questioning why teenagers
distribute sexually provocative
images of themselves, sexting is described as everything from a
modern-day form of streaking or
skinny-dipping to a sexual revolution where transmitting nude
images of oneself is tantamount to
a mating call (Shellenbarger, 2009)” (354).
Bullying is another issue cause of texting in the society that
directly hit the teenagers.
This blended techniques study investigates content informing in
a rural US secondary school.
Review inquiries were replied by understudies (mean age 16.0;
SD = 1.23) with respect to the
predominance of tormenting and exploitation through content

informing. Understudies and staff
individuals reacted to an overview thing with respect to view of
unfriendly content informing.
Either understudies or staff individuals took part in meetings or
center gatherings where they
talked about tormenting, understudy peer connections, and
social clash. Pervasiveness for
content informing that was seen as harassing was impressively
lower than other distributed rates.
Female understudies saw more unfriendly content informing
than male understudies.
Examination of subjective information recommends that
messaging adds to strife and to a
wonder called "show," and that contention or "dramatization"
may prompt harassing. Allen
mentioned out that “bullying/cyberbullying was experienced by
14.1% of students and
was perpetrated by 9.2% with the most frequent form of
cyberbullying being text
messaging” (101). Another article studies the writing in
association with youth tormenting in the
United Kingdom, Scandinavia and North America, fixating
particularly on female hostility as it
is imparted in pre-grown-up partner associations. It addresses

the raising issues of roundabout
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threatening vibe, especially those including long range casual
correspondence exchanges, for
instance, informing, email and Facebook postings. The goal is
to convey issues to light of the
need to improve peer associations by demonstrating sensitivity,
accepting whole school care and
realizing partner coaching structures within the educational
system. Perceiving that tormenting is
a general issue, the purposes of this review of the written work
are to: give a brief audit of the
pestering issue among young women. Catanzaro said "Female
teen aggression has been
recognized worldwide since the mid-1970s. Despitethis
awareness, the solutions to the issue are
still emerging" (83)
In concluding, bullying, accidents, and other problems can hurt
the teenagers strongly as side
effect of texting without knowledge and being aware of how can
they use that technology in their

sides. Technology may be harmful as weapons for teenagers, so
they should be educate about
technology and being aware in how they can make it useful to
increase their abilities and their
selves.
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Work Cited
Abkowitz, Alyssa. “For Teens, Texting while walking is aslo
Dangerous.” Business week Oct
2014: 1, proquest. Web. 15 Oct. 2015.
Allen, Kathleen P. “Off The Radar And Ubiquitous: Text
Messaging And Its Relationship To
‘Drama’ And Cybrbullying In An Affluent , Academically
Rigorous US High
School.”Journal Of Youth Studies 15.1 (2012): 99-117.
Academic Search Complete.

Web. 15 Oct. 2015.
Catanzaro, Mary F. “Indirect Aggression, Bullying And Female
Teen Victimization: A Literature
Review. "Pastoral Care In Education 29.2 (2011): 83-101
Academic Search complete.
Web. 15 Oct. 2015.
Gold, Judith E. Kimberly J. Rauscher, and Zhu Motao. “ A
Validity Study Of Self-Report Daily
Texting Frequency, Cell Phone Characteristics, And Texting
Styles Among Young
Adults.” BMC Research Notes 8.1 (2015): 1-7. Academic
Search Complete. Web. 15
Oct. 2015.
Curnutt, Hugh. “Flashing Your Phone: Sexting And The
Remediation Of Teen Sexuality.”
Communication Quarterly 60.3 (2012): 353-369.
Communication & Mass Media Complete.
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Dolliver, Mark. “The Age Of Teen Texting.” Mediaweek 20.17
(2010):22. Communication & Mass
Media Complete. Web. 15 Oct. 2015.

Book VIII
Book VIII looks at how the city Socrates and his friends have
been discussing will, according to Socrates, inevitably
disintegrate into tyranny. That is, we are reminded once again
that the materialistic city that Socrates describes as “feverish”
(372e 7) is inherently unstable. Even Socrates’ genuinely just
city was unstable, however, to the extent that people are
naturally materialistic and hence disinclined to be satisfied with
so few “luxuries.” Still, the genuinely just city seems more
stable than the materialistic city in that it is very egalitarian,
whereas the unraveling of the materialistic city is traceable to
its inequities.
The materialistic city turns into a timocracy, which is to
say a city where honor is valued above everything else, as the
result of the grumbling of a woman that “[h]er husband is not
one of the rulers and [that] as a result she is at a disadvantage
among the other women” (549c 5-d 1). Her son hears this and
feels ashamed that his father is not a greater man. He
determines to pursue honor above all else, thus elevating honor
to the most important value in the city. Socrates doesn’t
actually explain how one man an have such an effect on the
values of the city as a whole. He asserts only that cities are
reflections of the people in them, so it seems safe to assume
that he thinks this dynamic is going to be fairly wide spread in
the society. That is, most men will not be among the rulers, so
most women, according to Socrates in any case, will grumble
about this to their sons, creating what will effectively be an
entire generation trying to outdo one another in terms of valor
and the accumulations of honors.
There are echoes here of the story of the fall in Genesis.
That is, it’s a woman who precipitates the undoing of the city.

It’s the men, of course, who get carried away in their pursuit of
“honor,” but they are doing it, according to Socrates, in order,
in a sense, to please their mothers and by extension, one can
presume, their future wives. Very Oedipal, eh? You thought it
was Freud who universalized the interpersonal dynamics of
Sophocles’ play, but we have it here already in The Republic!
That’s how the materialistic city becomes a timocracy, or
honor-loving city. It doesn’t stop there though. It degenerates
from a timocracy into an oligarchy, which is to say a city where
a few people have all the money (and needless to say–power).
The timocracy degenerates into an oligarchy when men become
so obsessed with honor that they neglect their financial affairs
and thus eventually fall into poverty. Their sons are so ashamed
by their poverty they determine to amass for themselves all the
money they can. Money thus eventually becomes valued even
more than honor. The rulers in this city, asserts Socrates, “are
unwilling to control those among the youths who become
licentious by a law forbidding them to spend and waste what
belongs to them–in order that by buying and making loans on
the property of such [licentious] men they can become richer”
(555c 2-5). That is, the rulers in an oligarchy encourage
financial irresponsibility among the ruled as a means to the end
of appropriating the wealth of the ruled to themselves.
So the people in an oligarchy become poorer and poorer
over time, while the rulers (dare I say, the top 1%) become
richer and richer. As the poor become more numerous, the
resentment against the wealthy rulers grows until they finally
overthrow the rulers and establish a rule of the people. You
probably thought it was Marx who first postulated that
dynamic–but no, it was Plato! Das Kapital was simply Marx’s
riff on Book VIII of Plato’s Republic. Marx would have done
well, however, to remember Socrates’ assertion that cities are
reflections of the people in them. They do not spring up, as
Marx appears to believe, in a purely organic fashion. They are
expressions of human will, so the solution to the exploitation of
the many by the few is not so simple as instituting a socialist

form of government. It requires a change of will. If Lenin had
realized that, we might well have avoided the debacle that was
the Soviet Union.
It isn’t actually socialism Socrates predicts will result form the
demise of an oligarchy, but democracy! That may sound like a
good thing to the contemporary reader. Socrates’ idea of
democracy was a little different, however, from the idea that
came out of the Enlightenment. Democracy for Socrates was a
free-for-all, a system where there were almost no rules. It was
genuinely egalitarian, while it lasted anyway, but it achieved
this at the price of having any real values.
The transition from a democracy, or at least Socrates’ view of
what constitutes a democracy, is predictable enough. There
simply aren’t enough rules to keep order in society. People want
to be free to live as they please and this eventually leads to
chaos. Teachers, asserts Socrates, become afraid of their
students and hence fawn over them, “so the students make light
of their teachers” (563a 5). The young lose respect for
everything and everyone and the public becomes a mob that is
ripe to be led by someone who is thirsty for power. The excess
of freedom that Socrates sees as characterizing democracy ends
up leading to the “savage slavery” (564a 7-8) of tyranny.
That makes you think, eh? Is that where we’re headed–tyranny?
Are we perhaps there already, or are we still back in oligarchy?
We think we’re a democracy, but the distribution of wealth in
the U.S. actually makes us look much closer to an oligarchy
than to a democracy. It’s pretty obvious we’re not a timocracy.
No one seems to value honor much anymore. I’d go so far,
actually, as to suggest we longer even have a coherent concept
of it. There are a few exceptions, of course, there always are to
pretty much any generalization. If our culture valued honor
though, we’d have a different group of people running our
financial institutions and a different group of people populating
our prisons.
But if we aren’t a timocracy, what are we? An oligarchy? A
democracy? A tyranny? How did we get where we are and are

we condemned to remain here? Yes, I know “condemned” is a
pretty strong term, but almost no one would say everything is as
it should be now in the U.S.
What I like so much about The Republic is that Socrates keeps
bringing political questions back to the realm of the personal.
That’s how The Republic started, remember, by trying to figure
out what a just individual was, and Socrates continually brings
the discussion back to that question. Maybe we should do that
as well. Maybe it’s because we haven’t yet answered that
question that we are left with so many other questions.
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Yousef Almalki
Kathy Lowley
English 201-08
Nov 3,2015
TEENAGERS AND TEXTING
“technology, on its own, does not cause this new way of relating
to our emotions
and other people. But it does make it easy. Over time, a new
style of being with each
other becomes socially sanctioned. In every era, certain ways of
relating come to feel

natural. In our time, if we can be continually in touch, needing
to be continually in touch
does not seem a problem or a pathology but an accommodation
to what technology
affords. It becomes the norm” (Turkel 425) Teenage texting is
an act in which the
teenagers spend most of the their time glued to their cell phones
and messaging with each
other. This has been on the rise due to the improvement of
technology that in turn has led
to the production of friendly user interface phones that the teens
like very much. In this
study, the increase of the teens using text messaging is
discussed, the effects of getting
addicted to such texting and how can be overcome.
For teens, identifying less with their families and more with
friends of the same or
different sex is a process of becoming teenagers. The hearts of
the parents are a little
broken because this draws a meaning that they mostly talk to
one another and very rare to
them which is not news to them. It has been going on for many
years, and people have

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coped differently (Salkin & Jeffrey 28). However, to really
understand an ancient
Chinese curse, today’s parents are discouraged to live in
interesting times. Major
technological laps regarding communication have been brought
about by the past few
decades. In the 1950s and 1960s, teenagers were best owed with
high rise of cell phones,
an innovation that changed the relationships of the adolescent
forever, even if they had to
communicate in the hall within earshot of everyone. The 1970s
came with phones in their
bedrooms that interfered with dynamics again.
Fast forward to the 1980s, teens were using a lot
of time talking; exasperated
parents installed their second lines. E-mails that came in the
1990s and instant messaging
followed. The walk-up to Y2K came with cell phones. And the
teenagers of today who
have luxuriated in their own personal pieces of telecom history
have to text (Smith 158).

By the numbers, communicating technologically composing off
160 words
messages is only a slight bump up from the messages that are
instant. However, social
impact has been seismic. Texting shortens all the forms of
communication for the teens
of today. According to the trend trackers based at the
Washington D.C in February 2008,
38% of the teens sent a text message daily, which by September
2009 the figure jumped
to 54%. And a year later, undoubtedly the number still became
higher.
The same study also found out that the high school girls each
day sent 100 text
messages, or 3,000 per month and 15% of the teens per day
sends more than 200 texts.
Moreover if you go through the contents of those messages,
they are more likely to be
saying the some things you said to your friends when you were
of that same age, it is just
in abbreviation form, yet while the medium is extremely
different the content of the

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message might be the same with its own pace and distinct
texture. Longhand words re
considered elegant and convincing. The telephone allows the
emotional resounding to
shorten the big distance instantly. Texting is quick and
impulsive, young and without
nuance, eternally available and atomized. And the fabric of our
children’s lives is
transformed whether you like it or not (Griesse 129).
Change, of course, is often good because we cannot progress
without it. Imagine
our lives without, say, the medicine and the internet. And the
reason most teen’s posses
the mobile phones in the first place is potently obvious: they
ease the lives of the parents.
Texting is a simple way to keep tabs on children and sync
schedules even more than
making a phone call. It is also a channel in which the teens
normally ask each other
about homework, keep in touch with others at a far place and
firm up plans. Where teens
are involved, anything that eases the information exchange is

difficult to oppose.
Consequently, texting overloads the system, what is weighing
on parents minds is
if a point has been reached in which too much texting is going
on. The way that allows
the children to keep in touch with each other every waking
moment of the day and the
non working ones is unprecedented. During your teenage live,
you might have used two
hours on the mobile phone every night with your friend, and
probably that felt like a lot
to your parents. Nowadays many, if not all, teens caught up in
an ongoing conversation
with their friends from the morning until the end of the day,
only to continue with it gain
the following morning. This continuation has resulted in a new
set of norms and
assumptions; a first thing among them is that any text should
come up with an answer
immediately. Some perceptions exist that teens are always
available, so if you don’t
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respond faster, you are angry. This brings misunderstanding
within friends if the texts are
not conveniently responded to, like if he is sleeping or not with
the phone at that exact
time (Bernadowski 93).
A 17-year-old kid in Mexico sends an average 300 text per day.
When her bill
was examined by her parents, they realized that a lot were being
sent after they thought
their daughter was asleep. Dealing with the problem became as
simple as a call to their
carrier to disable the texting during the night hours, but the fact
that they needed to do
illustrated the irresistible lure. Communicating with the phone
overnight would be
exhausting, and boring. However, texting is low-impact and all
sizzle. Any message feels
like it takes no time to send, and the rhythm of waiting for a
reply brings a good
miniature reinforcement to loop. When conversation peters out,
hours later they can be
revived on a whim. The combination of these alters the results
in immense conversational

stamina. And it is normally hard not to see how this constant, if
sight, distraction can
cause child consciousness.
Additionally, as the case has been, these teens are allowed to
drive whether in the
presence of their friends or alone. During this driving, the
mobile phone are the sources
of their disruptions as they keep looking at their phones when
they hear the beep in these
phones, they are tempted to look at who is texting them and end
up texting each other
even if they are on the highway. This can lead to accidents, and
thus something should be
done (Oluwole 2).
In addition, since these are school going children, they end up
chatting with
whoever is texting them, and the result is a loss of
concentration. By the end of the
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lessons, these students will not have gained anything from the
lesson and thus become

empty minded since their minds were just on texting.
Additionally, some even may cross
the highway after school while texting which is dangerous as
this will lead to death from
accidents. They risk being hit by speeding vehicles.
On the contrary the development is arrested, because this form
of communication
is shallow, there is only so much substance you can put into 160
words-is weakening
teen’s growth of emotions, which is the reason the director of
the technology and self
MIT Initiative, who has been studying the dangers of the
technology on identity for
decades, is endangered. Teens of today would rather text one
another compared to
talking. The explanation of this is that texting is more
convenient, but going deeper
brings to light that they find revealing in using their own
voices. The lack of actual
conversation with their typical nuance prevents teens learning
how to study people and
emphatically responding. Of importance, with a phone inside
their pockets at all time,
children are never alone. The result of constant communication

is that many have a rough
time making simple decisions without having discussions with
others, which times may
degrade the confidence in one’s own coping skills (Rogers &
Vanessa 112).
In order to reduce the effects of texting and even avoid over
texting by the teens,
they should be thought the effects and harm they cause to
themselves by overexposing
and overusing their mobile phones too much. Moreover, the
parents of these teens should
not give their underage children the phones since they will
spend too much time on them
which leads to time waste that could have been used to study.
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In conclusion, when compared the benefits of the cell phone and
its harmfulness,
it depends with the user, for teens, the harm is far more than the
benefits derived from
using such communication gadget. It is therefore advisable that
the teens be only given

the phones when need be and be monitored so that they do not
waste most of their time
with them.
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Oluwole, Joseph, and Preston C. Green. Sext Ed: Obscenity
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Rogers, Vanessa. Cyberbullying: Activities to Help Children
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Texting, Twittering, Social Networking World. London: Jessica
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