What blunt fury could excite a man's wiles...
When he thrust up his fists on air for miles...
When he refuses to stampede-ground on agonizing pains...
And traverses not to unlock himself from the bondage of vains?"

What nomadic heart best describes a man's constitution...
When his vices, whims and caprices succumb not to restitution...
When his basic intentions defy lucid explanations...
And obstinates irrationality only rests onto his blind suppositions?

What blatant impetus could a man suffers in perpetuity...
When by greed he opportunely grabs all the grandeurs in sagasity...
When he illicitly seizes his love passions with shrewdest dexterity...
And incessantly advances his insatiable mundane conquests through vague eternity?

--Digna (Mother)

TXT U, TXT ME HA? :-)
An Assessment on the Text Messaging Patterns of CR115 Students

Dandal, Erika
De Guzman, Jinky
Mendoza, Katrine
Yebron, Gialynn
Zuniga, Melanie

     ABSTRACT

     This paper is a qualitative study why people text using the cost-benefit analysis of Social Exchange Theory and how such practices in text messaging reflect the utilitarianism principle of John Stuart Mill. Specifically, this paper focuses on the 2-day SMS description and assessment of the transaction of Communication Research 115 (CR 115) students through their diary entries from September 4-5, 2002.

     This paper found that people text or continue their respective transactions due to the benefits (rewards) gained and terminate their respective transactions because of the costs that serve as barriers in the communication process.

     The outcome of their assessment can be gauged through the satisfaction people gained in the transaction as well as the efforts texters make to maintain relational stability despite high costs in the communication transaction.

     Texters are also classified as hedonists and moralists based from their texting behavior. These classifications are basic tenets of the Utilitarian principle.

     Analyzing the kind of behavior patterns of texters will serve as an aid in determining the continuity of their respective transactions via cellphone.

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