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TextersChoiceBalisi, Kristel Anne R.
Francisco III, Jose Bautista
Gaspay, Robea Marie
Isada, Aaron KyleSanvictores, Arthur
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Chapter IINTRODUCTION
College and High School students of Las Pinas City are fervent communicators. The
communication frequently with a variety of important people in their lives: friends and peers,
parents, teachers, coaches, bosses, and a myriad of other adults and institutions. This report
examines the toolsCollege and High School students use to communicate, with a particular
focus on mobile devices and networks. What follows are the findings from a study conducted
by our group in DFCAMCLP and Las Pinas East National High School. The data discussed in this
report are the result of a representative random survey of DFCAMers and Verdanians. The
survey was fielded October 3, 2013, and was administered by questionnaires, in English to 200
DFCAMers and Verdanians.
MOBILE PHONE
A mobile phone (also known as a cellular phone, cell phone, and a hand phone) is a
device that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide
geographic area. From 1990 to 2011, worldwide mobile phone subscriptions grew from 12.4
million to over 6 billion, penetrating about 87% of the global population and reaching
the bottom of the economic pyramid. In addition to telephony, modern mobile phones also
support a wide variety of other services such astext messaging, MMS, email, Internet access,
short-range wireless communications (infrared, Bluetooth), business applications, gaming and
photography. Mobile phones that offer these and more general computing capabilities are
referred to as smartphones.
TEXTINGText messaging, or texting, is the act of typing and sending a brief, electronic message
between two or more mobile phones or fixed or portable devices over a phone network. The
term originally referred to messages sent using the Short Message Service (SMS); it has grown
to include messages containing image, video, and sound content (known as MMS messages).
The sender of a text message is known as a texter, while the service itself has
different colloquialisms depending on the region
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OBJECTIVES
1. To determine whether the high school students have greater interest in texting than collegestudents.
2. To distinguish what is the most used network among the respondents.3. To prove that texting affects the writing abilities of the students.4. To get the idea of the reason why the students do texting.5. To know how much students spend on texting.6.
BACKGROUND & SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
In todays day and age almost everyone owns a mobile phone. With this dependency on
technology people tend to rely more and more on communication by cellphone and less on
face-to-face, in-person interactions. Nowadays talking over the phone is becoming less
common while texting is becoming the new primary source of communication between friends,
colleagues and family members.
SMS is the most widely used data application, with an estimated 3.5 billion active users,
or about 80% of all mobile phone subscribers at the end of 2010. The term "SMS" is used for all
types of short text messaging and the user activity itself in many parts of the world. SMS is also
employed in direct marketing, known as SMS marketing.
Text messages have their advantages and disadvantages at times.
ADVANTAGES:
You can customize quick notes automatically to send to someone without having to typequestion or sentence each time.
You are able to send a message to someone to ask them to call you later regardingsomething important. At the same time though it doesn't interrupt them with a phone
call.
It allows receiver to respond back to you when it is most convenient to them. The privacy to exchange messages with each other without fear of other people
knowing what you and another individual are talking about.
DISADVANTAGES:
Grammatical Errors - It is common to see grammatical errors while texting. Shortcutsand acronyms are used regularly and are starting to become a trend. Not only are they
being used as a writing style for texting but accidentally used by high school and college
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students everywhere in research and term papers. Some business professional also find
themselves occasionally slipping and using u instead of you and having to go back
and correct their business emails.It is important as an elite member of society to show
your intellectual prowess and avoid these grammatical errors. If there are typos in your
work as a person in the workforce, you instantly lose credibility and a sense ofprofessionalism. And lets be honest how much longer will it take you to type later
than l8er?
Communication Skills - Texting on a daily basis makes it easy to avoid speaking withpeople on the phone. We, nowadays, tend to minimize face time and even minimize our
phone conversations. By doing so, our communication skills suffer- we start to lose our
conversation etiquette. Personal conversations also suffer, becoming less natural and
choppy, resembling our text messaging conversations.
Instant Communication -There is a sense of instant communication that has been foundwhich allows people to talk to anyone anytime. Whether it is during class or in a movie
theatre, text messages are being sent when communication was once perceived as next
to impossible. With information traveling around at such a rapid pace, take some time
to make sure that everything that you are saying is accurate.
Closing Thought - While texting instead of talking face-to-face can hinder yourcommunication and social skills, there is also something to be said about the loss of
certain experiences that accumulates when the only interpersonal communication one
experiences is fully digital. While you may feel like you are being more social now that
you can text a 100 character message to any of your friends or partners at any given
moment of the day, you cannot ever give or receive the full story over a digital
device.When you do not have the person that you are conversing with physically in front
of you, you are not given access to all the subtle body language and facial signals and
responses that are occurring whether or not they are available to you. Sometimes these
subtleties are more important than the actual language that is used to express a
persons feelings or thoughts. It is great to be able to text when you have something
quick to tell or ask someone, but if you are having deep and meaningful conversations
through your smartphone, you are missing out on the important stuff.
This study shows if the stated advantage and disadvantage above does really affects the
student.
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HYPOTHESIS
HO:
College students text more than high school students do. Emergency is not the main reason why students text. Globe is not the most used network among students.
HA:
High school students text more than college students do. Emergency is the main reason why students text. Globe is the most used network among the students.
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CHAPTER IIREVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Texting and Mobile PhonesOVERVIEW
Daily text messaging among American teens has shot up in the past 18 months, from 38% of
teens texting friends daily in February of 2008 to 54% of teens texting daily in September 2009.
And it's not just frequency teens are sending enormous quantities of text messages a day.
Half of teens send 50 or more text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month, and one in three
send more than 100 texts a day, or more than 3,000 texts a month. Older teen girls ages 14-17
lead the charge on text messaging, averaging 100 messages a day for the entire cohort. The
youngest teen boys are the most resistant to texting averaging 20 messages per day.
Text messaging has become the primary way that teens reach their friends, surpassing face-to-
face contact, email, instant messaging and voice calling as the go-to daily communication tool
for this age group. However, voice calling is still the preferred mode for reaching parents for
most teens.
ABOUT THE SURVEY
This study is based on the 2009 Parent-Teen Cell Phone Survey which obtained telephone interviews with a
nationally representative sample of 800 teens age 12-to-17 years-old and their parents living in the continental
United States and on 9 focus groups conducted in 4 U.S. cities in June and October 2009 with teens between the
ages of 12 and 18. The survey was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The
interviews were done in English by Princeton Data Source, LLC from June 26 to September 24, 2009. Statistical
results are weighted to correct known demographic discrepancies.
Teens and Mobile Phones Over the Past FiveYears: Pew Internet Looks BackOVERVIEW
Teenagers have previously lagged behind adults in their ownership of cell phones, but several
years of survey data collected by the Pew Internet & American Life Project show that those
ages 12-17 are closing the gap in cell phone ownership. The Project first began surveying
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teenagers about their mobile phones in its 2004 Teens and Parents project when a survey
showed that 45% of teens had a cell phone. Since that time, mobile phone use has climbed
steadily among teens ages 12 to 17 to 63% in fall of 2006 to 71% in early 2008.
In comparison, 77% of all adults (and 88% of parents) had a cell phone or other mobile device
at a similar point in 2008. Cell phone ownership among adults has since risen to 85%, based onthe results of our most recent tracking survey of adults conducted in April 2009. The Project is
currently conducting a survey of teens and their parents and will be releasing the new figures in
early 2010.
We went back to our databanks in light of the intriguing findings about adult mobile phone use
in two of our recent reports, and to help lay the ground work for our current project on youth
and mobile phones. This memo is the result of our data mining.
ABOUT THE SURVEY
Four different teen data sets were used to produce this report, along with data from four adult-only tracking
surveys. Unless otherwise February 2008. The Parent and Teen Survey on Gaming and Civic Engagement,
sponsored by the Pew Internet and American Life Project and supported by the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation, obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 1102 12- to 17-
year-olds and their parents in continental U.S. telephone households. The survey was conducted by Princeton
Survey Research International. Interviews were done in English by Princeton Data Source, LLC, from November 1,
2007, to February 5, 2008. Statistical results are weighted to correct known demographic discrepancies. The
margin of sampling error for the complete set of weighted data is 3.2%. For more details please see the
methodology section at the end of this report.specified, the data in this report comes from the Teens, Gaming and
Civics survey, fielded between November 2007 and
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CHAPTER IIIMETHODOLOGY, SAMPLE, DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURE
This research is based on the findings of a survey on DFCAMers and Verdanians use of
texting. The results in this research are based on data from the surveys conducted by our group
October 3, 2013, among a sample of 100 DFCAMers, age 16 and older and 100 Verdanians, age
12 to 17.
Gender 100 Female = 100Male
Age RandomYear level Random
Education stage 100 College = 100 High School
Questionnaires:
1. What is the network of your sim ?others, specify _____
A. GlobeB. SmartC. TMD. TNT2. How much money do you spend for load ?A. 10 20B. 21 40C. 41 -60D. 61 and above3. What kind of load promo do you buy ?A. UnlitextB. Unlicall
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C. Regular load4. How many hours do you spend in texting ? A. 1 2 hoursB.
3 4 hours
C. 5 6 hoursD. 6 hours and above5. Usually, how many text messages do you send?A. 1 30B. 31 60C. 61 90D. 91 and above6. What are the reasons why you are texting?
________
7. Do you text during class hours?A. YesB. No8. Do you think texting improve your writing skills ?A. YesB. No
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CHAPTER IVPRESENTATION OF DATA
COLLEGE STUDENT vs HIGH SCHOOL
Our group made a chart every question that compares the answers of college and high
school students.
This graph state that the most used network among the high school students is Smart
Buddy while in college students is Talkn text
This graph shows that most of the high school and college students spend 10 20 php
only for load. But the college student spends more than the high school students.
0
5
10
15
20
2530
35
GLOBE SMART TM TNT
18
23
29 30
19
32
2023
What is the network of your sim ?
College High School
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
10 TO 20
21 TO 40
41 TO 60
61 AND ABOVE
49
33
11
7
58
30
5
7
How much money do you spend for load?
High School College
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This graph shows that college student and high school students prefer unlitext promo
but college students have the most number who purchased unlitext promo.
This graph shows that most of the college students spend more time in texting than high
school students do. Most of the high school students spend texting for 1 to 2 hours only.
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
UNLITEXT UNLICALL REGULAR LOAD
What kind of promo do you buy?
College High School
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
1 TO 2 HOURS
3 TO 4 HOURS
5 TO 6 HOURS
6 HOURS AND ABOVE
31
20
10
39
42
17
10
31
How many hours do you spend in texting ?
High School College
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This graph shows that college students send more text messages a day than the high
school students do. Most of the high school students send 1 to 30 messages a day while most of
the college students send 91 and above number of messages a day.
This graph shows that both college students and high school students reason of texting
is to communicate but most number of communicator are the college students.
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
1 TO 30 31 TO 60 61 TO 90 91 AND ABOVE
21 20
11
48
42
11
5
42
Usually, how many text messages do you send ?
College High School
57
11
9
14
9
47
23
9
11
10
FOR COMMUNICATION
FOR FUN
FOR GATHERING INFORMATION
FOR EMERGENCY
OTHERS(CRUSH, LOVE, ETC.)
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
High School College
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This graph shows both college students and high school students text even during class
hours but the most number of texter during class hours are the college students.
This graph shows that both college students and high school students believe that
texting does not improve the writing skills but most number are the college students.
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
YES NO
40
60
13
87
Do you text during class hours ?
College High School
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
YES
NO
25
75
43
57
Do you think texting improves your writing skills ?
High School College
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All Respondents(n=200) College (n=100) High School (n=100)
Gender:
Female (n=100) 50% Male (n=100) 50%
50%
50%
50%
50%
Age
1213 (n=26) 13% 1415(n=67) 33.5% 1617 (n=56) 28% 1819 (n=37) 18.5% 2021 (n=12) 6% 2223 (n=2) 1%
0%
0%
87.5%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
12.5%
0%
0%
0%
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CHAPTER VCONCLUSION
Based on our study, we can conclude that the most used network by college and high
school students is Smart. We can infer that the promos they offer are widely accepted by the
students. The second graph shows that the college and high school students responded the
same; they do not spend much money for texting. Third, we can conclude that college students
are more into texting than the high school ones. That is based on the number of hours that they
spend in texting and the load promos that they buy. Although the college students consume
more time in texting, it doesnt necessarily mean that they are wasting their time. Because
based on our survey, the main reason why they are texting is to gather information. While most
of all of the high school students text to have fun. We can also conclude that High school
students are more disciplined than the college students. We can say so because our study
shows that more college students still do text during class hours than those of the high school.
Lastly, we can conclude that the college students are more aware of the disadvantages of
spending so much time in texting, and that is having a hard time in honing their writing skills.
RECOMMENDATION
As a help to the telecommunication companies, we recommend that they should
consider the college students to be the target market for their sales promotion since they text
more than the high school ones. We also suggest that they should continue the kind of promos
that they offer since it is accustomed by the market---students. For the school authorities, we
recommend that they should strictly implement the rules of not using their mobile phones
while having classes because it diverts their focus in their lessons.