Call me crazy but I
HATE TEXTING. With a freaking passion!!!! Now I get that it can be convenient
when you’re in class or a meeting where you can’t outright have a conversation
or the times when all you really need to say is can you pick me up some milk. Truly
I think the inventors of texting meant for it to be just that. A mode of
conversation set exclusively for small thoughts and quick conversations. I do
not think, however, that the inventors of texting meant for their invention to
carry relationships, ideas, and whole conversations to the point that we forget
what the other persons voice sounds like.
Is it our generation
that damaged the relationship? And if so I dread to see where the children of
today is going to take our broken pieces of friendships. Have we become so
connected that we are actually disconnected from each other?
But please, before I go
on don’t get me wrong, I as a twenty three year old female have nothing against
the Internet or technology of our present day. Social media and such has become
a great joy of entertainment for me. I am able to appreciate our present times,
the swiftness of information and the globalization of the World Wide Web to the
point that I can connect with a person in Bulgaria without ever leaving my
couch. But I also dwell on the simple days; the 90’s and early 2000’s where
cell phones and Myspace were the hottest thing out. The telephone was a
blessing and a curse from being able to speak with those miles away but slightly
diminishing face to face contact. I enjoyed speaking on the phone, hours spent with
my friends on three-way. The laughs and giggles we shared. It was amazing but
now that the majority of my friends have fell into the rabbit hole of texting,
we have since fell apart.
There is nothing like
speaking to someone directly. Hearing their laugh, listening to their change of
tone as they tell a story, feeling their highs and lows as you share one of the
most primal means of communication; speech. Nothing can beat that except actually
seeing that person but I will pick my battles wisely and just urge you to rethink
that LOL text when in all reality you’re not laughing. Replace that WYD to just
simply calling and really hearing that the they are at home so bored and
hearing your voice brightened up their day.
So please if you care
about someone or simply want to get to know them better take the time out to
call them. You’ll gain more in a ten minute conversation than a six hour
texting spree filled with LOL’s and WYA’s. Show them that you care, share your
hopes and dreams, bond in ways texting can never fulfill. And whatever you do,
please don’t text me, you’ll never get a reply.
-Tiffany
Li
