1. Introduction The most debatable question nowadays is the question of benefit and harm of mobile phones. We have made a poll among the pupils of the 8 and 11 forms and have got such results.

2. THE HISTORY OF SMS MESSAGES The idea of a point-to-point short message service (or SMS) began to be discussed as part of the development of the Global System for Mobile Communications (or GSM) network in the mid-1980s, but it wasn't until the early 90s that phone companies started to develop the commercial possibilities. And although the first experimental messages were sent (in Finland) in 1992, it took five years or more before numbers of users started to build up.

3. IS TEXTING A NEW LANGUAGE? The popular impression, created largely by the media, is that the written language encountered on mobile phone screens is weird. It has been labeled 'textese', 'slanguage', a 'new hi-tech lingo', a 'digital virus'. "Guardian" had held the first text-messaging poetry competition. One winner was Julia Bird and her poem: a text message poem his is r bunsn brnr bl%, his eyes are bunsen burner blue, his hair lyk fe filings his hair like iron filings W/ac/dc going thru. with ac/dc going through. I sit by him in kemistry, I sit by him in chemistry, t splits my @oms it splits my atoms wen he :-)s @ me. when he smiles at me. Although many young texters like to be different, and enjoy breaking the rules, they also know they need to be understood. The research studies have made it perfectly clear that the early media hysteria about the novelty (and thus the dangers) of text messaging was misplaced. It is too early to say just how much impact texting will have on speech. Most of these innovations will probably die away; but some may live on, and add new acronyms to the spoken language.

4. THE FEATURES OF TEXTING There are several distinctive features of the way texts are written which combine to give the impression of novelty that so attracts the attention of media commentators. 1.Pictograms and logograms The use of single letters, numerals, and typographic symbols to represent words, parts of words, or even - as in the case of x and z - noises associated with actions: b be 2 to Emoticons are a type of pictogram.

5. 2.Initialisms Probably the second most noticeable feature of texting is the reduction of words to their initial letters - what are known as initialisms There is nothing new about texting initialisms. 3.Omitted letters An initialism is a word where all the letters are omitted except the first. As with the previous features, letter omission has well-established antecedents. We only have to think of Mr and Mrs ('Mistress'). 4.Nonstandard spellings Texters are also prone to misspell, both unconsciously and deliberately. Huge savings of time and money can be made if word length can be significantly reduced without loss of intelligibility. English has abbreviated words in this way ever since it began to be written down, and all of the above have long histories.

6. THE TEXTERS: WHO ARE THEY? As early as 2002 in the UK, it was being reported that text messages had replaced phone calls as the commonest use of amobile phone, and that the younger you are the more likely you are to text. 80 per cent of under-25s texted rather than called. Despite the fact that men were quicker to adopt mobile phones when they first became available, women turned out to be the more enthusiastic texters: over 40 per cent of women texted daily, whereas only 35 per cent of men did. Among young people, in particular, texting quickly emerged as an index of belonging. Shared text behaviour shows you belong to the same 'gang'.

7. CONCLUSION Texting is one of the most innovative linguistic phenomena of modern times, and perhaps that is why it has generated such strong emotions - 'a kind of laziness', 'an affectation', 'ridiculous' - and why we have seen the 'moral panic'. Yet all the evidence suggests that belief in an impending linguistic disaster is a consequence of a mythology largely created by the media.