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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study Communication is vital in any culture. Communication enables people to form, develop, and sustain relationships. Through it, people are able to know what is going on in the lives of others, what they think and feel, what they plan to do, and a host of other information. Communication also allows people to know what is going on in the world around them, and helps them form opinions and make decisions regarding events and situations. In order to improve these relationships and develop these opinion and decisionmaking abilities, human beings have come up with various communication tools. After the invention of writing and the emergence of the postal service came electronic communication, otherwise known as telecommunication. Examples of tools of telecommunication are the telegraph, the telephone, the radio, the television, the computer, the beeper or pager, and of course, the mobile phone. Mobile phones have come a long way in the past several years. Once as long as a person’s forearm, it has now become smaller and lighter, with the newest models as thin as a pad of paper, and as small as a person’s palm. They are no longer used just for making calls or sending text messages, but have now become a new medium for exchanging all sorts of information, from pictures, to music, to videos. It has also become
2 a new means for obtaining information, since recent technology has allowed the mobile phone user to access the Internet through one’s mobile phone. Filipinos are among the most avid users of the mobile phone. Owners of cell phones span all social classes of society. Over 22 million (out of the 80 million) have cell phones. The Philippines has even been dubbed the “Text Capital of the World.” Testament to this is the finding of studies which show that out of 113 billion SMS messages sent around the world in 2003, 30 percent or almost 34 billion came from the Philippines. In 2003, there were about 100 million texts...