TO TEXT OR NOT TO TEXT

Since the dawn of technology we have found ways to do it smarter, faster, and without having to lift a finger. We voice speak into our phones, we text and swipe text, we skype, and email. Dead is the day of human contact or REAL conversation.. I remember laughing at watching Sex in the City and Carrie being dumped by a "Post it" note...lol.. now you can view a break up on youtube or on a picture of  a text thread from an IPHONE....

I am not a fan of the official text conversation.. you know when its no longer, just answering a question, but is a full conversation.. usually your phone has to convert to a multimedia message because your characters have gone above 160. ( at least twitter minimizes it to 75 characters)  take a mental note serial texter's  I still want conversation.,..emails, and text messages leave the interpretation up in the air. No on knows the tone or what the person meant.  I can't begin to tell you how many arguments I have been in with family and friends over something said in a text...(ohhh, and do not mess up and type in ALL CAPS) who said that doing that meant your screaming or yelling... could it not have been that I simply left my caps lock on by mistake?

HERE'S THE TEA: A couple of months ago I went against all that was "common sense" and went out with a guy 10 years younger than me,,SMDH.. The first time we met up he was coming from playing basketball, ok, ill let that one go, but I figured if you knew you were coming to see me, you would want to look your best.. I find out in our conversation, that basketball shorts and wife beaters are his favorite thing to wear.....SMDH...(turn off #1) as the days went on he always wanted to text a conversation. By this time I had explained my dislike for this type of conversation, but he continued (turn off #2) after 2 weeks of me ignoring his text messages, he got the point and started to call. after a couple more days of maintaining military silence I answered the phone and realized why he prefers to text............Brother could not hold a conversation if Jesus was coaching him. (Turn off #3) and he was OUT!!!!!

What I then realized was that text messaging is almost like throwing a rock from a distance and ducking.  People can say what they want, with out worrying how they sound or even if they can spell( thank you text abbreviations) We as a society have basically said.. "ahh, to hell" with human communication I can just text,

Me, I am raging against text conversations.. I want people to talk to me. I want to hear the tone behind the words so I can form the right reaction or opinion of what your saying.. SPEAK TO ME,!!! I don't want LOL, can i hear you LAUGH?.............