The whole world is too busy typing Why isn’t anyone saying anythinganymore?
Conversations and person-to-person talks have been considered obsolete, especially amongst college students who depend on text messaging for survival.
It’s as if no one values the concept of verbal communication between two living humans anymore.
Instead of calling someone to talk, a quick text message can say everything you need to say. It shouldn’t be weird to call someone or have a real life conversation. Inter-personal communication is on a decline and unemotional, impersonal, non-threatening text messages are on the rise. Has it become that difficult to talk to someone?
Say you want to find out someone’s weekend plans but you don’t feel comfortable enough to call them, so you send them a text. If you aren’t comfortable enough to call them, chances are it’s not important to find out what they are doing this weekend. Just hope to run into them, and if you are destined to form some kind of relationship with them, it will happen.
It is understood that if you are attempting to establish some kind of relationship with someone, but don’t want to come off too strong, you send them a text. Text messages have become so popular in college because everyone is just trying to hook up. Every relationship between a guy and a girl must be as casual as possible and with as little of an emotional commitment as possible – unless, couple status has been established, which rarely occurs.
Text messages between couples are just annoying because all they do is it make it possible for that couple to have constant contact with each other during all hours of the day. Enough is enough. Chances are they slept together last night, have already spoken with each other this morning and will see each other in a couple hours.
All that button pushing will probably increase their chances of arthritis and maybe cost some friendships along the way. It is quite possibly the most frustrating thing when one of your friends is ignoring your life-altering emotional breakdown because they are too busy typing.
I am guilty of text messaging too, because I have found there are some benefits to concise, clear communication, such as coordinating rides after class with friends. Sometimes stepping outside to call someone is impossible and you know the other person won’t pick up anyway because of where they are. A text message is the perfect solution. When service is lacking, texts pull through.
In any other circumstance where calling is possible, just pick up the phone and dial, or better yet, attempt to talk to that person in person. It’s unfortunate that people are afraid to talk to one another and it’s really terrible that person-to-person conversations are almost always discouraged, not to mention avoided at all costs. What does it take to agree to talk to someone in person?
If a serious tragedy is what it takes for someone to listen, then we all need to rethink the importance of our relationships. If students have already started text messaging their parents, the future of real-life communication does not look good.
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