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| We’ve become a device-dependent society, with a crackberried adult population setting the prime example for their kids. How have we ever lived without such endless connectivity? More importantly, what will happen to today’s antisocially connected youth when they are faced with having to actually converse with other people without devices in their hands? Why bother to talk when you can text, surf, update your Facebook and Twitter page and keep your peeps updated on every aspect of your life without speaking a single word? | Texting is okay for quick check-in, but not long conversations. In love relationships, part of the attraction can be the sound of the object of your affection’s voice. Can’t get that from a text. Conversation lets you hear the joy in friends’ voices when they know it’s you calling to share news. That human contact enables you to pick up on the distracted tone in a friend’s voice if she is troubled or sad. And you don’t need CAPITAL LETTERS TO TELL YOU SOMEONE IS ANGRY; it will show in the tone of voice, face and body language. | |||
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Posts Tagged ‘Sexting’
LESS TEXT. MORE TALK.
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010by Mrs. Robinson
LESS POKING. MORE PHONING.
Thursday, April 8th, 2010by Chairman of the Bored
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| At first glance it may seem innocuous enough, but the ubiquitous Facebook “poke” feature is starting to reach cataclysmic proportions. Communication has degraded into some kind of cyber ping-pong: You like-me? I-like-you You-like-me? I-like-you ad infinitum. As a staff, we didn’t grow up in the most chivalrous of ages, so that’s probably why haven’t really noticed or been bothered by the migration of human interaction to online platforms. Surely, chatting, IM’ing, and texting is how we roll too, but from a romantic perspective, it’s rather disconcerting. | With all the mobiles floating around nowadays, you’d think there would be more phone calls. And yet, all we see are people tapping away on their iPhones for hours on end. They also take a lot of pictures (of food, dogs, houseplants, gardens, and genitals). Sometimes they even blast the latest Timberlake single. But talking? Seems like only banker dudes engage in that tomfoolery. “Buy! Sell! Call me in Hong Kong!” Even Tiger Woods preferred texting to talking. Technically, that was sexting, but that point gets lost in translation, because no one talks to one another anymore anyway! | |||
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