Txtng by Crystal David

Author:Crystal, David
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2008-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

A great deal of social texting is motivated by boredom. If one has nothing much to do, then one might as well send a text – and at any time of the day – or night. (Around 20 per cent of teens say that they send and receive SMS messages after midnight on a weekly basis.) It is a handy way of killing time. In one study of schoolchildren, Timo Kopomaa draws an interesting analogy with children’s play:7

Composing text messages in all kinds of places is akin to the tendency, found in children’s play, to move away from inactivity towards activity. The text message transports the sender’s thoughts to the recipient, offering the sender the freedom from the constraints of the immediate environment: the aim is escape. However, escape in this case is primarily based on the contact established with the recipient rather than a wish to get away from one’s physical setting.

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