TEXTING SUCKS!
What ever happened to having an actual face to face conversation? Remember, the kind of thing where you can actually hear the other persons voice? Whether on the phone or in person, a true interaction between two or more people, where thoughts and ideas can be exchanged. Where emotions can be put forth, both good and bad, which could actually lead to a further understanding of each persons thoughts and feelings.
Texting isn’t even a decent excuse for a conversation. Not by a long shot. Five or six words back and forth and to make matters even worse, most of those are ‘half words’, ‘textonics’, just a bunch of stupid abbreviations that add up to a complete desecration of the english language. Come to think of it, a massacre of ANY language.
All of this supposedly in the interest of saving time? Well, if you’re anywhere near as ‘textually challenged’ as myself, it takes five times as long to attempt to spell your thoughts out in a text than it ever would have taken to just come right out and say it. And without any ‘emotion’ to go along with your words, it’s just a guessing game as to what the ‘sender’ was even attempting to say. Not to mention the fact that by the time I’m ready to send my reply, three more texts have come through and so the response that took me ten minutes to get typed and ready to send is no longer even relevant. If I hit send at this point, the usual response is ‘WTF?’. Even worse is when a call comes in at the same time and then you’re totally screwed! Complete loss of all contact, screen ‘flips over’ to something else entirely and then you have to start all over.
Of course, all this leads to a full on battle. “Oh no, that’s not at all what I meant. Scroll back up about five or six lines and you’ll see that this is the answer to THAT question.” All that BS that gets completely out of control, out of nowhere. It’s no friggin’ wonder the divorce rate is so high in this country. Nobody can understand what the heck anybody is trying to say and with all the misunderstandings and the hurt feelings along the way, it’s easier to just get a divorce than it would be to go through any more texting ‘crap’.
Instead of ‘tennis elbow’, we will start to see all of our hospital emergency rooms filled with people suffering from ‘texting thumbs’, our insurance rates will skyrocket, taxes will be raised to cover all of the people out of work on disability and we will be living in a society where no one even speaks to one another. Now, some might think this would be a ‘dream come true’, but not me. I myself miss the ‘good ol’ days’ of sitting down and actually having a face to face conversation, especially with a beautiful woman.
Call me ‘old fashioned’ and ‘out of touch’, that’s fine but until I can actually ‘feel’ a hug and a kiss thru my iPhone or ‘see’ the look in a womans eyes on my QWERTY keyboard when she says “I Love You”, I’ll take a ‘real’ conversation any time! Until then, I’ll continue to believe that TEXTING SUCKS!
Dood. I hear ya. But I can tell you like it at the same time. You drop all the tags in your writing WTF! It is like the freeway. It isn’t the nicest looking piece of civilization, it eats up more space and bypasses quaint, old-fashioned towns but you like getting from one place to another faster.
You aren’t the dude that talks of the good old days when gas was a quarter a gallon, are you?
BTW, I like your playlist and it isn’t on vinyl. It looks like you are already embracing it.
Peace.
Pat
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says:
Hey Pat, thanks for stoppin’ by. I am definitely not 100% against texting by any means, I believe it does serve a purpose. Quick messages here ‘n’ there, it’s great. However, attempting to nurture and build a relationship of any strength, let alone longevity through texting is, in my opinion a recipe for disaster. As I mentioned in my post, so much gets lost in translation that it’s bound to self destruct.
No, I’m not the guy that walked to school in the snow, uphill, both ways. In fact, far from it. I couldn’t survive without my iPhone nor my computer. We live in a techno world and I would never fight against that. But at the same time, I don’t want to have another meaningful relationship destroyed by a lack of communication.
Thanks again for stopping by, I’ll be sure to do the same.
Bryan