i think text messaging is ruining communication and civilization as we know it.
it's too easy on us. our lives are becoming soooo convenient and instant and unemotional that something important is being tossed out the window. commitment, responsibility, devotion...something important, just...gone. we're all so lazy.
and i am just as guilty as you.
i hate to talk on the phone, as do many people, so how convenient is it that we can just text something to someone without having to be in an actual conversation?
perfect, right?
sort of. at first, in my opinion, text messaging was like a post-it note. it's like, i want to throw something out there, just fyi, get back to me when you can. actually, its just a heads up, i'll call you in five minutes.
makes sense.
but things have taken a turn for the worse. nowadays, i almost exclusively text people...i treat it like a doorbell.
ding dong, hello! i'm here, are you?
and what's considered text etiquette? we all have our own.
to me, if someone text messages me, if i am by my phone and am able to text back, i will respond right away. some people don't do that though, and it sort of drives me insane. but then i feel even more insane because i'm under this umbrella of delusion that text messaging is a respectable form of communication. it's not - it's short, choppy, vague, emotionless, and it's all-around lethargic. people don't care about texts...sometimes i get so many a day it gets hard to even keep track of the conversation. it's so sloppy. so careless.
it's like we're all validating the fact that none of us are important enough to press talk and be in a real-time, brain-to-brain conversation and instead punch out some letters on a screen like a monkey and send it off into satellite oblivion, where we never really know if it was received or regarded by the recipient.
unless you have blackberry bbm.
woahhhhhh nelly. then the rules change dramatically. now i know that the message was sent AND (here's the kicker) that you've read it.
here's where it gets tricky - if you sit on it...well that's enough to make any sane person go completely crazy. if you read it, and don't respond in like 5 minutes, my mind goes straight to the loony bin. are you avoiding me? do you not care enough to respond right away? am i annoying you? is something wrong? what did i do? omggggggggggggggggggggggg.
this world is so effed.
and don't even get me started about texting and dating. oh shizz. it's the worst thing ever. so many confusions and complications specific and unique to the world of texting, sexting, drunkxting. it's really quite awful.
and somewhere i should bring up the not-so-related but-sort-of-is-kinda point that, more times than not, i will only wish someone a happy birthday via facebook.
how insincere.
how 2010.
how effed up are we all? (!)
