: About Me

My name's Joel Meeks, and I've been writing for the past six or seven years, although it's been mostly recreational. I love to write, but I tend to do it in bursts, as opposed to planned texts written over a period of time. I'm attending college right now with a major in English, and I'll be transferring to a university after another year. My ultimate goal is to eventually become an English teacher with a focus on literature and composition. This site, seems like an obvious and important step in reaching that goal. So hopefully I can get some good articles written and spread some knowledge.

My passion is ...

English

I know too much about ...

The internet

My parents always told me ...

The world is your oyster."

Relationships & Family > Communication Issues Communicating in text-message style: Is it ruining real communication?

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Text messaging is not ruining modern communication, and it can sometimes even help to improve it. Although many people think that texting is the reason for teenagers using shorthand so often, this is simply untrue. This assumption is similar to the concept that playing violent video games or watching violent movies. People think that being exposed to this violence will cause the player or viewer to become more violent itself. But this argument is fundamentally flawed, in the idea that this line of thinking is presented under the assumption that the consumer of these media are unable to dif...

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