Texting and such...

The rate at which we transmit and receive information through social networking sites has rapidly increased over the past few years. This can be, as discussed in my prior post, both beneficial and not so beneficial. The latest concern is that the lightning-speed rate at which students tweet, text, and update social media "statuses" is leading to reading/writing skill deficiency. Teachers have reported that students have begun to use popular abbreviations and text lingo in their own formal papers. LOL.