An Analysis On The Social Effect Of Short Message Service

Recently, a new kind of information technology—Short Message Service(SMS),has attracted wide attention from the society. SMS has developed rapidly during these years, which has become a kind of new media that can broadcast messages. Its appearance changes cell-phone single function of talking, and undertakes both interpersonal communication and mass communication function. In a word, it brings very great change not only to people's life, but also to traditional journalism and communication.Starting with analyzing social background that SMS has come into being, the thesis explains the influence that the SMS brings to both person intercourse and people's life. As a new media of interpersonal communication, SMS not only meets people's needs that communicate with low costs, sooner feedback, stronger alternation, but also shows the new characteristics of interpersonal communication. This way of communication enables the interpersonal communication to be easier and more privy as well. SMS doesn't only open new way of interpersonal communication, but also permeates through all respects of life rapidly, and has exerted a very great influence to people's life styles, such as to their work, amusement and consumption, etc.The initial purpose of emergence of the SMS is to meet the needs of interpersonal communication, but it become a kind of new way of mass communication finally. Such new media has impact on traditional journalism and communication. On one hand, it will make traditional journalism and communication more complicate because of introducing interpersonal communication into the mass communication field. On the other hand, it blurs out status of audience and disseminators further. But such new media cannot be developed only by itself. That's to say, it should gain support from the advantages of original media, with common gradual progress of traditional media. In my opinion, the developing road the SMS should take is to integrate with traditional media.While the SMS is bringing the facility to people's life, it also brings a great deal of negative effects. We must take relevant means to guarantee the healthy and orderly development of SMS.