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Savannah Daniels
omg!
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Kyra Deutsch
true love, baby
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That's all it takes, really. The significance an online relationship status change can have in an IRL (ahem, in real life) relationship is astounding nowadays. Due to our constant "communication" and total access we've given to one another, its come down to sheer lack of communicating that eventually dooms these same relationships.
Hearing a person say they care about you face to face tends to have a greater impact than words and symbols read off a screen. Yet we've shorthanded our lives to 140 characters or less and <3's have replaced saying to one another how we actually feel. If you've already texted the play by play of your day to someone, what's left to tell anyway? Even if it was just the abbreviated version.
Anyone who knows me knows that my Blackberry is pretty much an extension of my hand (expect when it's being drunkingly left in a cab...or burger king...or bar bathroom...or - Okay, you get the point). I've all but forgotten that yes it is rude to read and reply to text messages mid conversation with someone who is actually right in front of you. That blinking red light has become my heroin and when it vibrates the world will end if I don't check it that very moment. After all, Victoria's Secret's 20% off sale is ending tomorrow (!!!) and there's no way I could have lived without knowing this immediately.
Smart phones aren't even the half of it. It's the overexposure we've all grown accustomed to indulging in divulging these past few years. It started way back with beepers (suddenly we could reach out to each other no matter where they were and let them know we needed to speak to them RIGHT AWAY) , then evolved through INSTANT messaging, cell phones, text messages, online blogs (oh! hi =] ), social networking sites whose sole purpose is to tell the world just what you're doing at that very moment in time and everything in between. Yes, even websites devoted to broadcasting the dumb shyt we'd felt the need to share with people the night before.
But with all this so called 'communication', is anyone even saying anything anymore? I've said, and been told, countless times that emotions are all but impossible to decipher via an LCD screen. That as long as you throw a smiley face or strategically placed "LoL" into what you're typing, you can get away with anything. Hell, we even have an emoticon for when you just don't know what to say.
Isn't this evolving? Isn't this progress? Aren't these all ways to bring the world closer together? Sure...kinda. But whatever happened to that age old adage "absence makes the heart grow fonder"? Cause I for one know that even if you don't have physical contact with someone for weeks, months, YEARS even, it's more than likely that you'll still have a general idea of what is going on in their life. And no, not even through the grape vine of spoken communication as was done back in the dark ages of the early 1990's, but rather right here on the screen you're currently staring at. Progress has taken us so far that we need to hit a "block" or "ignore" button in order to erase a person from our lives.
And there are definitely times when my text messaging privileges should be revoked...namely after about three or four drinks (LoL).
18th and 2nd
Published: 5 hours, 59 minutes ago by Karen.w.
p.s. And just for the hell of it, I was on Look Books today =]
p.s. And just for the hell of it, I was on Look Books today =]
