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Students are the major groups of people that send text messages; young people especially have mastered this art of creating messages in shortened text talk very fast, achieving a well-organized, private form of socialization with their peers. Moreover, the number of young people owning cell phones has noticeably risen in last years; about 90% of undergraduates in further as well as higher education in Britain own a mobile phone. The explosion is because of technological advances, more reasonable tariffs plus public exposure to handsets. All this means that SMS are the great platform for sending out informative messages concerning students’ education, inexpensively and effectively.

The advantages of incorporating short messages into students’ life are remarkable, possible uses comprise class cancellation notification, and private results disclosure, announcements (for example, school, and students union as well as extra curriculum) and promotional options. Due to the technology behind SMS communicating, the text messages may act the same as a kind of permanent record of interactions between students and their school, moreover delivery reports can demonstrate exactly who got what messages and when.

Besides, schools would have an opportunity to offer unlimited support to undergraduates, with SMS technology, and students can answer back to messages received by them, and they are delivered to their schools inbox. So, this discrete as well as private form of communication can be used to concentrate on problems facing undergraduates both in school, that is bullying, as well as out of school, that is problems at home. Thus, making it much simpler for students to be in touch with their schools informally and incognito could decrease the number of cases of teenagers’ abuse and aggression at home.