My mini technology investigation

I have noticed from analysing my research that many over 40 year olds use abreviations in their texts. Aswell as this i saw that they use puncuation more frequently than the younger generation. Texts such as ''Ok. Will find out how much n let u know k. Xx' show that they are more interested in the convience of shortening their words than how the text is portrayed by the reader. By using shortened words is gives the text a more informal feel. This is due to the fact that by using lengthened words is shows that time and care has been taken when thinking about what and how to write it. The more frequent use of punctuation in the text by older generations may be to do with the fact that when they were growing up there was a less dominant use of texting and instant messaging therefore they were accustomed to writing in with length letters which involveed puntuation so they use it more in texts.

Another thing that i noticed in the texts is that the reasoning behind using abbreviations is to make social networking quicker and simpler. It gives people ease when writing things that do not need to be spelt properly and in full length. It also became clear that this is the way people think, as they beleive that this is a social cocept of how you text, what texting means and also how other people do it so it becomes more apparent for them to follow the same 'trends'.