On The Changes And Influences Of SMS And Ways Of Personal Communication

In recent years, with the support of electronic technology, Short Message Service (SMS) has become a completely new way of communication and has been flourishing rapidly gaining the concern of the public and the academe. SMS has become indispensable"daily necessity"of Chinese people's lives, and have changed people's way of thinking and habits of practice. SMS is a kind of exchange mode based on text. It can not merely brings to individual the spread of the maximum that across time and space is free with the exchange, but also offers at its individual with the speaking power. And it gives the autonomy to individual to establish their communication network. Individual can also release their sexual desire and have the freedom of writing at the same time. In a word, this kind of humanistic free enticement has driven the development of the short message at a full speed.Based on collecting a great deal of materials, from the point of analysing the development process and direction of SMS, this paper summarizes the development, the reasons and characters of SMS and interprets the influences that SMS brings about to the interpersonal relationship. As the interpersonal communication media, SMS not only meets the demands of low-communication cost, quick freeback and strong interaction, but also unfolds the new characters of communication. The way of spread can make peronal communication more free and more covert. SMS not only creates the new way of personal communication, but also permeates into various aspects of people's life. It has deeply influenced people's life style, such as people's work, entertainment , consume and so on. As the Mass media, SMS has the much more media advantages than newspaper, broadcast, television, and Internet. It has influenced various aspects of people's life, too.With the development of technology, the functions of SMS are perfect. We can see its shadow in very aspect of social life. In Information Society, SMS gradually breaks through the field of personal communication, and presents more and more characteristics of media. As a new Telecom Value-Added Service, SMS brings about considerable commercial profit for Telecommunication operators and Internet service providers, and as a Information platform, it brings about convenience and fun to pepple's life. From the point of Usage Frequency, Market Prospect and Text Type, we can see that the usage of SMS has become not only the commercial and technical phenomenon, but also the social communication phenomenon. As a way of commerce, SMS has its advantage and disadvantage. On the one hand, it brings people convenience, on the other hand, it brings trouble and quarrel. Fraud and annoyance spreading through SMS do great harm to people's daily lives. The paper offers ways and means to resolve the problems according to the law and technology morality, which has an important referential value to SMS management and standard.The paper discusses SMS, which is one of the newly sprouted things in the information times and new century. SMS is developing extremely sudden and swift especially in the field of communication. Although many people are paying more and more attention to SMS that has a sound effect in our daily lives, there are almost no mature cases and theory to study it fully and systematically. Therefore, it's unique to study its function systematically from the aspect of the sociology in detail. For the theory with the breakthrough and creativity has an important meaning in the study of SMS.