All you do is text text

[cyrano]

Interesting article from the Daily Commie Pinko Leftist Rag:
Y TLK WHN U CN TXT?

About the 'new generation' of communicators who, for various reasons, prefer email or texting to actual meatspace interaction. Weird.

Comments

[jezebeltw.livejournal.com]

thanks for the laugh from the subject line.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I do my best. (: There are a lot of jokes in the subject lines, but they're only funny if you (a) know the song and (b) recognize the lyrics. Which even I don't sometimes when I go back, like a week later. "What the hell song is this from?" I frequently ask myself.

[9thmoon.livejournal.com]

"New generation", huh?

I dunno, I'm 31... can I count as a new generation?

I don't even drink Pepsi!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Do you prefer typing at a crt over seeing somebody's face? If so, then I would say you are new enough to join this generation.

I'm still trying to grapple with the idea that they feel that a text message is more honest and more real than a conversation, so I'm pretty definitely old.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

It's kind of funny and disturbing.

"I feel more comfortable texting friends, because face-to-face you run out of things to talk about,"

This kid and his friends must have a pretty shallow existence if they cannot keep a conversation going.

Psychologists say both groups are also part of a new generation of patients who do better with e-therapy -- counseling via e-mail -- than personal encounters in an office setting.

Is this really supposed to work? Therapy via email?

"Teenagers and early 20-somethings would tell me that things like face-to-face and telephone and even e-mail are a cold medium and you can't trust them, but the way you can really be authentic is through texting and instant messaging,"

No wonder people are isolated and so easy to manipulate through mass media. When machines take the place of human interaction and that's considered preferable our society is fucked up.

It's no wonder people are so lonely. If they got hurt or died would anyone even notice?

'So-and-so stopped texting.'

'Oh.'

And they move on.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of my initial reaction as well. I'm waiting to see if I 'read through' and get anything else.

Some thoughts, in no particular order

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

Well, if I were of the "younger generation" I would definitely start boning up on the art of reading body language and faces. Because as much as the young would like fleshy human interaction to go away, it won't. And those that can thrive and manipulate that world will rule. True they do today as well, but it'll be a lot simpler with the masses having no clue about such things.

As a person who strongly believes in such rituals as grammar, spelling and punctuation, I have always held text messaging in high distain.

I'm not sure these people understand communication. Humans are three dimensional and communicate that way. Text exists only in two. The last third is missing, leading to more miscommunication, misunderstanding.

Hiding behind a keyboard is not necessarily more honest. Maybe more direct. But honesty and intent shows up just fine in the flesh when you know what to look for.

Who says conversation in the flesh must always go on? What happened to silence? I know, I know, people are deathly afraid of that.

Irony?: I'm writing this while listening/watching to some of the most amazing, non-language based show.

If it weren't so late, I'd be more coherent.

Re: Some thoughts, in no particular order

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

That's a good point. Their grammar and punctuation must be terrible. Lazy writing leads to lazy thinking, the inability to reason and communicate on significant levels.

Re: Some thoughts, in no particular order

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

I may believe in spelling, but it certainly doesn't mean I can ACTUALLY do it!

*sigh*