The Origins Of Texting

SMS (Short Message Service), the fastest form of communication ever created in the modern world. E-mail, in comparison only takes an average of 48 hours for a person to open it. Receiving or writing a text only takes a matter of seconds. The texting was first developed in 1984 by the GSM Corporation by a German engineer named Friedhelm Hillebrand and by his partner Bernard Ghillebaert. During its launch years, it wasn’t as popular as it is today. The reason was because it was created to cater to the hearing impaired. It was not intill around the year 2000, when texting started to gain popularity. This was due to the fact that making phone calls become rather expensive. A recent study done by the University of Queensland in Australia has put texting as additive as smoking cigarettes. Let’s face it text messaging was been among us for 20 years, and its shows no signs of decline. What is of concern, are the effects it was on individuals lives. Texting and driving has been the cause several hundred of deaths around the U.S. It has also harmed classroom environments by proving to be a distraction and a tool for cheating on tests. It’s provided an avenue for young girls to expose sexually explicit photos of themselves. Texting may proof to be speedy but has showed to have some negative effects on our society. What’s for sure, (and billions of teenagers would agree) is that a world without texting would quite “boring”.