tokens: Email and text messaging threats written language The introduction of email and text messaging has brought about considerable changes in communication . With this situation, some people believe that they may be factors decreasing the position of written language . I am in favor of that idea because of their advantages and the fact we can see today about the use of these new means . First of all, it is easy to point out many benefits users can get from email and text messaging, which answers to the question of their great popularity . Before email and mobile phone, human beings communicated by meeting directly, sending letters or later, calling from home phones . Such ways usually made people have troubles for the expensiveness, difficulties in far communication or emergency and the loss of information . However, email and cell phones have improved the obstacles above . People can send or receive electronic letters anywhere and anytime they want . Especially, thanks to the function provided by email and text messaging (SMS), it is cheaper and faster to transfer a lot of information, even to many people at the same time . They are so convenient that the majority of population prefer to use them instead of some traditional ways . The popularity of email and text messaging, as a result, leads to the losing of written language's position . People tend to use slangs and abbreviated words to shorten their writing and save more time in communicating for other activities . The outcome is that language in writing is not in its original form . Even in some cases, people compose a message with only emoticons (the expressions by face created by service providers), which means there is no room for writing or typing texts . Moreover, it is more dangerous that youngsters sometimes use such new languages in their studying, writing assignments . If that tendency continues at a rapid pace, written language may face up to a real problem about its stand . In conclusion, we cannot deny the threat from email and text messaging to the status of written language because their obvious popularity . Nevertheless, educators and individuals themselves, especially the youths should pay ore attention to this matter so that we can take advantages of the new language along with preserving the traditional one .