"Texting and Writing"

3. In her description of methods, Cullington argues that a good reason for using one's best friends as data sources is because a researcher can better interpret the responses of participants she knows intimately what are the benefits to interviewing participants a researcher doesn't know? is it clear whether the advantages of interviewing one group outweigh the advantages of interviewing the other?
- The benefits to interviewing participants a researcher doesn't know is being able to give the interviewer a different mindset on things he or she is receiving from the person they are interviewing. It gives the interviewer time to realize how people looked at things from a different mindset and perspective. It allows them to have a wide array of thoughts and opinions as Ms. Cullington stated in her story. Michaela Cullington was cautious about the groups because she didn't want too many assumptions being told.
4. People debating an issue often forget that issue itself can shift beneath them with the passage of time, so what they were arguing at the beginning might be irrelevant several years on. This can be especially true in relation to issues of electronics, networks, and social interaction, because the technology itself moves so quickly -- something that was a problem just last year might be a complete non-issue with the next version of software or hardware. Can you think of any ways the "texting-and-writing" issue could have shifted between 2004 (the date of Cullington's earliest source) and when she studied the problem five years later?
- The "texting-and-writing" issue could have shifted by taking positive about texting because texting really can go hand and hand with writing. With people texting so much these days, it tend to have them write more and speak more on a certain subject. When people text, they tend to be more expressive and can express themselves better. But one downfall with the texting is that people tend to sometimes forget they are writing and would use acronyms for words in their writing because the texting is so addictive.