In my last blog I talked about the death of relationships caused by increased technology. I will continue to argue my point. This past week I found myself tied even tighter to my blackberry. Yes, you might call me a hypocrite for preaching how much I hate technology, but yet I look to see if my blackberry is flashing every 5 minutes. This week I got into a misunderstanding with a friend. I blame it all on text messaging.
WARNING: text messaging should only be used for short quick messages such as, Yes or No or even I will be there in 5. If you find yourself writing long text messages that force you to send two part messages take that as a warning. The reason you can only send a certain amount of charters is to save you from miscommunication.
After texting back and forth with my friend and realizing that this was going nowhere, I took action. I picked up the phone like they used to do in the old days and had a real conversation where I could hear another voice. I might also add that when hearing the tone in his voice and realizing that maybe that was a joke it all came together that it was all just a misunderstanding. Of course, we will continue to text messaging because who has time to have long phone conversations but this time I know to take a text message with a grain of salt.
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