Nowadays, text messaging is the most popular and newest craze of teenagers. Some people would even say that they would surely die if they can not text for just a day. Short messaging service (SMS) addiction is like a contagious virus that has no remedies. Once you ate hooked to it, you can not erase it in your mind. Text messaging is far better than Yahoo Messenger or any chat websites because it is wireless, cheaper, user- friendly and less connection problems. Plus, companies right now are offering unlimited text messaging to all of their subscribers. It is no wonder why teenagers are texting everywhere they go. Apparently, teenagers like texting because they can make friendship with anyone, pass announcements to everybody and even have relationships with a total stranger through text only. Curiosity leads either to good or bad endings.
I am a self- confessed addict of text messaging. Text messaging was once my pastime hobby but it turned out to be an irresistible addiction. Every weekend, I go to Nang Celsa’s store and buy thirty pesos worth of cell phone load. Then I subscribe to the unlimited text service of Globe and wait for five minutes to get the activation message. After that, I would limitlessly text to all of my friends and to my textmates for two days. Honestly, I even had not-so-serious relationships with female textmates.
Sooner, I realized that I was really addicted to SMS and the results were dreadful. I had no money to save and spend for school things, I became irresponsible, my grades went down and I even broke the hearts of my “girlfriends”. Karma is the word.
Then one time, I read about how to stop text addiction in a magazine. I followed the article’s advices and started undergoing “text message fasting” for a month. I had a hard time during my one-month “SMS fasting” because my textmates are always texting me but eventually, I surpassed all the hardships. Fortunately, I was successful in my plan and I resisted all the temptations. I learned a lot about the good and bad effects of text messaging. Honestly, I still text until now but with moderation. I now also lessened the number of textmates in my contact’s list. One lesson I got from my experience, minimize text messaging before the “virus” controls you. Experience is the best teacher.
By the way, I already apologized to all of my female textmates whom I left broken-hearted, and I still have the copy of the magazine.
I am a self- confessed addict of text messaging. Text messaging was once my pastime hobby but it turned out to be an irresistible addiction. Every weekend, I go to Nang Celsa’s store and buy thirty pesos worth of cell phone load. Then I subscribe to the unlimited text service of Globe and wait for five minutes to get the activation message. After that, I would limitlessly text to all of my friends and to my textmates for two days. Honestly, I even had not-so-serious relationships with female textmates.
Sooner, I realized that I was really addicted to SMS and the results were dreadful. I had no money to save and spend for school things, I became irresponsible, my grades went down and I even broke the hearts of my “girlfriends”. Karma is the word.
Then one time, I read about how to stop text addiction in a magazine. I followed the article’s advices and started undergoing “text message fasting” for a month. I had a hard time during my one-month “SMS fasting” because my textmates are always texting me but eventually, I surpassed all the hardships. Fortunately, I was successful in my plan and I resisted all the temptations. I learned a lot about the good and bad effects of text messaging. Honestly, I still text until now but with moderation. I now also lessened the number of textmates in my contact’s list. One lesson I got from my experience, minimize text messaging before the “virus” controls you. Experience is the best teacher.
By the way, I already apologized to all of my female textmates whom I left broken-hearted, and I still have the copy of the magazine.
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