Is Text Messaging Affecting You?

         My research paper’s topic is about how text messaging can affect people and their relationships. In my survey I chose questions that mostly deal with text messaging. I wanted to see how other people feel about these topics and what their general behavior is in text messaging. I decided that the majority of people who text message are teenagers or young adults, so I surveyed people in a couple of my high school classes.
      One of the questions on the survey was asking if people say things in text messages that they wouldn’t say to a person face to face. I was expecting most people to say yes, but 60 percent of people said no. I asked this question to see if people think they’re being genuine when they text. Another question I asked was if texting affects the ability to talk face to face. The majority said that it doesn’t affect them. When I came up with these questions my general thought was that texting is degrading the quality of how we communicate. After administering this survey I think it’s possible that technology is improving our communication instead.
      One of my other questions was asking if people flirt though texting. I asked this to see how common it is for people to use technology for relationships. About 80 percent said they do use texting to flirt. I also asked if people had broken up with someone through a text. I was relieved to find that over 90 percent had not. My last question asked if people had ever met someone through technology before meeting them face to face. About 75 percent said yes because of Facebook and other social networking sites.
          I think this survey was good for me to do. I expected everyone to think the same way I do on these topics but they don’t. I helped me to realize that I need to get out there and hear what other people are saying. This survey will be useful in my research paper to help convey the “they say.”