OMG and LOL and other texting slang has become common English terms in today’s conversations.
With the rise of texting, there are certainly changes in the way people are interacting with the language. The trend is especially evident in the interactions of younger crowd.
The Internet education portal OnlineSchools.com recently took a look at the trend and came up with some interesting findings via sources including the British Journal of Psychology, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and PBS.
The graphic reveals interesting details: 95% of cellphone owners between the ages of 18 and 29 send texts. An estimated 8 trillion text messages were sent in 2011, and a 17-year-old in Wisconsin even won $50,000 this year for flawlessly typing a 149-character message in just 39 seconds.
Several texting terms have also made their way into the hallowed Oxford English Dictionary.
But before you may be surprised to know that the texting slang dates was first encountered with almost 100 years back when politician Winston Churchill reportedly received the first OMG in an old-fashioned letter way back in 1917.
Check out the full OnlineSchools infographic below for now,
