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Spell check, cell phones and others useful items help us get things done faster and easier. However there’s a problem with this technology, its making use more illiterate. Using devices like spell check are hurting us because it teaches use how not to remember a word, just type in something that looks like it and the answer will pop up. There are tons and tons of words that I have forgotten how to write because of spell check. In the modern age of communicating, texting has become the new fashion. Yes we are still talking to people, but it’s much dimmer and dull and we do not get a whole lot out of it. Using phrases like omg, brb, u, r, lmao are making it faster to send a message, but it is slowly making use more illiterate.

They concluded that the result showed that the greater the habit of text messaging has a negative effect on written language skills.