WARNING September 25, 2009

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.

Face to Face September 18, 2009

It would make sense, that signing up for a social media class would lead to registering to Twitter and Word press.   However, do all these internet connections take away from the face to face time we were once used to? I believe so; Facebook and Twitter have justified that in today’s society people would rather connect with you through an alert on your blackberry than face to face contact. I had always decided to opt out of adding the word, “tweet” to my vocabulary but when the professor says register as a student you must obey. I have let Facebook become a part of my life with an occasional few months when I decide to withdrawal through deleting my account.  It can be seen as signing your soul over to the devil because if you don’t know you can never actually delete your facebook account but rather just deactivate. I believe it started with an email, then to a text, moved to a facebook account, then to twitter, and finally to all compilations becoming merely another alert to your phone. How much more face time can be lost before we only have relations with our phone and computer screens.