How damaging is texting?

Okay, I admit that I love to text. It’s a great way to communicate with my kids and my friends and when you don’t really want to talk, it gets the job done. Unfortunately, a lot of what is in a text form, gets in translation.

So many of us use texting to fight, make up, break up and tell other people off.  I know when I get a test that is all capital letters, I think the person is yelling at me and it makes me mad.  One of our friends was texting like that, but he wasn’t yelling, he just has really bad eyesight and he was using caps to see better!  Opps, sorry!

So, what other messages are misunderstood?  Well, text it, and it can have problems.  I have been in relationships where I think the guy  has broken up with me, but I’m not quite sure.  That really sucks.  You sit around and wonder and if the other person doesn’t text you back, you’re like in fucking text limbo.  The delay in communication can make you crazy!

Another problem with texting is you shorten the words so it’s faster and use abbreviations, but when you don’t put exactly what you want, you can totally be taken wrong. You spend a lot of time redoing the text to explain what was misunderstood from the original text which takes longer than it would if you just spelled it out the first time.  Phew.  Is anybody tired of this??

What ever happened to sitting down and talking, or talking over the phone??  Why do we put ourselves through this?? I’m just as guilty of this as anyone.  I misunderstand texts and write confusing texts although I’m not trying to do.  I just think a lot of what we mean to say includes the tone and texture of our voice not just our words.  When we lose that, we can lose the intention of the message.  In the age of electronic communication, we are losing the human aspect of communication.  And sometimes, it sucks.