Today’s rapid development of technology has changed the lifves of people around the world. The invention of new facilities and utilities by the use of modern technology can enrich or change human life. The ever-growing modern technology has many effects on different aspects of human life, including communication and language. In this regard, many linguists and sociolinguists are concerned about the effects of technology on language (see Ling, 2001 for a review), and point to the fact that modern technologies need new linguistic elements, like words and expressions, to be disseminated (Elvis, 2009). According to Elvis (2009), one of the new inventions of the modern life is the mobile phone, which is a quick gadget for communication. The use of mobile phones and their different services among people has become very popular today and has opened the door to enhance or probably change the type of communications among people throughout the world. Among different services of the mobile phone, SMS or text message is the most frequently used service. SMS stands for “short message".
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