At work today, I was emailing with a friend. I mentioned that I do not like text messaging. Her response to me was, "yeah i hate texting. it's very passive-aggressive. " The reason I don't like texting is because I feel like if you have to tell someone something, just call them, that's what a cell phone is for PHONING. I had never thought of texting as a passive-aggressive activity. So, I have been pondering that thought the rest of the afternoon. Perhaps she is right, maybe that is why many people choose using their thumbs to communicate instead of their voices.
Due to the fact that our household is a non-texting one, I thought I would check and see what I could find online about texting behavior. I found that yes, indeed, it is being viewed as a form of passive aggression. I have read where relationships have moved from phone calls to entirely texting. Texting allows the people involved to become disconnected as it removes all physical interaction which removes any chance of intimacy to occur. Just as online relationships are considered "virtual" because they are not real, neither are those which are primarily composed of texts.
I recall being out with a group and someone decided to start texting a friend they felt may be having a rough evening to check on them. Obviously phoning was just too much work, they couldn't be bothered to care that much. How much more would a thirty second phone call have meant than thirty minutes of texting? It reminds me of the old Hallmark motto, "When you care enough to send the very best..." The very best is you, actual interaction, not hiding behind a screen. Of course, people could say, "well, Shell, you are interacting via a screen right now, aren't you being hypocritical?" Perhaps I am which is why I am going to go interact with with some live people now.
What are your thoughts? Texting, is it a good thing or out to get us?
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