The rest of Saturday went really well. Not only did I have work off (and got paid for it :D), but I also was able to go on another really great date with Andrea. We were able to hop over to "A Little Taste of Britain", and eat some native food from our mission. It was close, but not quite the same, BUT the battered Mars bar at the end made up for it. After playing Quelf with my fam, we lit off some fireworks (legal ones...mostly....), and finished just talking on the porch swing. It was great. Now we're officially dating, and I'm really happy about it. :)
Several blogs ago, I talked about how facebook is taking over every ones lives, and the world as we know it. This time, I want to put a plug in about texting. First, I want to start with a confession. I am quite the texter. I text6,000 most of the time, and I enjoy doing it. To put it clearly, in the month of June alone, the total sent and received texts from my phone were over 6,000. It's sad, I know...
So I decided (with help) to throw in some pros and cons here of texting.
Let's start with the cons.
Firstly, texting takes away personality from a conversation (minus the emoticons, but still). It can often be difficult to tell the tone that a person is presenting in those words. (much like a letter). There is also no body language involved, minus your fingers, but...they can't see those either. Also, texting takes you away from the world. It is very
distracting, and you are paying more attention to your phone, than you are to what is going on around you (especially driving). When that beep goes off, a lot of people immediately drop whatever they are doing, and look at the phone. (like in a doctors office, classroom, work, family dinner, etc) Speaking of beeping, to other people, it can get incredibly annoying to hear it go off over and over and over (hence why they invented the vibrate feature). It also creates a laziness in language, and even is causing it to break down. Words and acronyms like LOL, ROFL, G2G, and TTYL didn't exist before this. Even in texting people abbreviate so much to the point of ridiculousness. "Hey bro, Hws it goin? Were gng to Jims hse l8tr. Cya!"....serious? Texting affects the educational world as well. Several students use the discreetness of their phone, to allow them to cheat, or again, distract them from the lesson. Also, combining with the language degradation, it has been causing writing abilities to go down significantly. (http://www.techlearning.com/)Leaving the cons aside, there are also several benefits from being able to text.
Being discreet is also a positive part of texting. You can quietly have a conversation with someone without interrupting something else (as long as it is in an appropriate place. Texting also helps you get to the point a lot quicker than normal conversations. Instead of a whole build up to something, you can take off a small piece, and send it to someone, and you'll have your answer quicker. Texting also helps save the awkwardness of the ending of some conversations. In fact, you don't always have to end a conversation with someone while texting, it's almost like a continuous thing going. You can also have conversations with someone throughout the day, and still do the things would normally be doing. For me, I enjoy texting for that reason. I like to keep up to date with my friends and such, without having to interrupt anything, and they can text me back when it's convenient.
Anyway, that's all I have for now. What do you think? Are there any pros or cons that I missed. Feel free to comment!
one of my favorite things about texting is the ability to communicate a message to multiple people. like when you're making plans for things. it is just so much easier to send out a quick text to your friends telling them to meet you somewhere at such and such a time, instead of calling every single one of them. i get your cons though, it is so true. there are pros and cons to everything... ya know, oppostion in all things! that is whats great about it all!
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