Texting. Possibly the greatest invention to ever come out of telecommunications . . . ever. I'm sure this is true of just about any place around the world but it's been a godsend to me living in New York. Don't have time to talk to someone I'm meeting b/c I gotta catch the subway, text. In a crowded, noisy bar and I gotta give the address to someone coming to meet me, text. Living in an apartment where no cellular service seems to exist at all, text.
However, a problem arises with texting at times. It goes like this: boyfriend cancels date through text message due to illness, girlfriend texts back with snarky remark which would stink of sarcasm and jokiness if told in person, boyfriend reads snarky text, grows angry and picks fight. Granted, this kind of misunderstanding can be figured out later on but the fact that you can get yourself into such a situation just b/c you have a quirky sense of humor and a tendency toward sarcastic jokes causes little messes left and right that you have to take the time to clean up and you waste precious time that could be used doing other things, i.e. making out.
You can either assume that the above situation has to do with me personally or a "friend" of mine, it doesn't matter. My point is not that this only happens between lovers. It can happen to friends, coworkers, cousins. Luckily, my cousins don't text so I've managed to avoid that situation. Maybe you've had some experience with that and some suggestions for avoiding it.
Now, you maybe saying to yourself, is this silliness really worth a blog post. Well, probably not. In fact, I've overdramatized much of it just to make it more interesting. But I am simply warning you of the dangers of snarky text messaging.
Think of me as your friendly educational video and of this message as the telecommunications "stop, drop, and roll". Be careful the next time you carefully take twenty minutes to spell out one word on the screen of your cell phone. You just might hurt someone unwittingly with a bad joke. Then you'll have to apologize. Over text message. Which will cost you an extra $.05.
Beware Texters!
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I think this is awesome. I think you should blog everyday. You could be up there with Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter within weeks. I hope to read as much as possible. Keep me in the loop. I am not a texter, but I think it is because I have a cheap phone. Good Luck.
Oh... please don't compare me to Ann Coulter... please.
Texting is a subject that definitely warrants a post! Cosmo actually did a whole article about it. Another real problem is that texting incites laziness. I think that canceling a date demands a phone call (unless he was sick b/c he'd lost his voice), which means you (or whoever) were not at fault b/c you shouldn't have been in that situation in the first place!
i didn't know you had a blog. i just misspelled "blog" as "blob." you're right about what you say. oh boy. let's talk soon...
people who know you won't misunderstand a snarky text. The rest of the people can shove off.
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