Impose tax on SMS to discourage the youth for sending senseless messages.
But what are senseless messages anyway?
An Inday text may be absurd to me but it is something that can make another person or persons laugh. Maybe my exchange of text message to a friend (about books, movies, theater, politics, or philosophy or whatever simple chitchat about life) is something senseless to another person. A religious quote may not appeal to me but it is something that can illuminate another person's soul. (Maybe, this has something to do with Uses and Gratification Theory?)
The use of text messaging (SMS) has evolved. From simply being a way for personal or business communication (transactions for that matter), it has become an official way to do business (market/advertise a product), social-networking, and even a medium for entertainment.
Maybe what people should learn (to give sense to these messages) is to whom they should to send a particular message and at the same time when is the proper time to do so. And of course, be disciplined enough to set a ceiling as to how many text messages one should send in a day (because for some, not just the youth, it has become 'a hard habit to break').
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So to deter pointlessness, impose tax? Maybe that too is senseless.
2 comments:
To raise money, impose tax. This has nothing to do with deterrence.
Exactly. It's just weird that some use it as one of the reasons.
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