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The challenge of the small screen size and its limited character space has motivated the evolution of an even more abbreviated language than that which emerged in chatrooms and virtual worlds before (Döring, 2002: 14).

The composition of the language of text messages shows an expressive facet of mobile telephony, specifically the use of slang or newly manufactured words. This within a small peer group underpins group membership and also serves to exclude those who are not competent with the slang. This is an aspect of the identity formation of teenagers and thus, 'those outside the group will either not understand the content of the slang, or will appear inept when trying to use it (Ling, 2000: 19).

In spoken English, transient conversation is as vital to our communication with others as any actual information we pass on to one another. Though spoken conversations tend to be less formal than traditional written correspondences, conventions of politeness and formality often remain necessary. With SMS, teenagers can avoid the time and cost of all the various conversational protocols required before they can ask a question or get to the reason why they called. SMS allows users to eliminate the transient, 'hello how are you...nice day, isn't it...anyway the reason I was calling was...thanks a lot...talk to you soon,' and get straight to the point 'what time r we meeting @2morrow*'. Short blunt conversations are acceptable. They can avoid the other person going 'off topic' and making the conversation even longer than planned. Again, the character limit forces both sender and respondent to stick to the topic.

Like if you're phoning someone up and you can't avoid that they might want to talk to you about something else, whereas when I'm texting someone then it's just what you want to say and you don't have to commit yourself to a whole other conversation or whatever (a participant from the study of Grinter & Eldridge, 2001: 13).

The way in which teenagers' use this new medium has as many behavioural dimensions as it does practical and this study will also attempt to introduce an understanding of these behavioural tendencies. Do teenagers flirt more and say more than they normal might via SMS? The technically asynchronous SMS communication is used mainly in the private social environment. These writing-linguistic standards, according to Döring (2002) offer an increased experience of psychosocial nearness between text author and text reader. The main focus of this part of the investigation however, is to study how users have overcome the obvious shortcomings of SMS as a means of communication. The 160-character limit of the service plus the troublesome text entry on a mobile phones limited size keyboard encourages text messages to be kept short. The nature of text messages are thus often in the form of greetings, invitations, congratulations, jokes or love letters. With prompt response times from communication partners, temporary and thematically coherent conversations are possible. The language used however varies. While many teenagers write out full words and sentences, many others ensure that their messages are as economical as possible by using their own language conventions and short cuts. The technical restrictions of text messaging have led to the development of language short forms in SMS communication. Users must take care not to exceed the space limitation because the dispatching of several separate messages, especially for teenagers, can prove to be expensive.