We all do it, don’t we?
Texting, whatsapping, instant messagering, all day, every day.
We interact on facebook, through comments and groups, DM’s on Instagram, Snapchats, and think that it’s normal.
We walk down the road doing it, drive our car doing it, wait in airports doing it, have a drink with friends doing it, sit at work doing it, and even do it on the toilet or when we’re in bed with our partners.
Don’t get me wrong, it was a great invention, as is all the smart phone technology, and the inventors and engineers should be praised for their ingenuity. But.
Emough.
Everyone in the world is communicating by tapping out characters on a keyboard, even our dear old politicians are doing it.
When Alexander Graham Bell who is credited as being the inventor of the first practical telephone, created his device, little would he know that phone calls would be relegated to the history books, replaced by manic tapping on touch screen portable devices, with people thinking they were actually having a ‘conversation’.
Whilst texting might be convenient in this fast moving human world, there is always the risk of miscommunication andand people reading into things the wrong way.
Although this can happen when speaking on the phone, there is less risk that people will read into what you are saying and misconstrue it.
The same goes for emojis.
I am not telling you how to live your life, just asking you to consider how communicating face to face improves understanding, leaves less room for misunderstanding…definitely a plus in this politically corrext world where everyone seems to be offended by everything, including not adding the correct number of kisses, or the wrong heart symbol!
Back in 2006 I wrote in the natural mind – waking up that I had noticed that friends who were out for an evening with me would send more time chatting to other friends who weren’t there than with me who was there!
I found that very strange and thought that maybe I was boring them, but apparently being somewhere else psychologically was just as much fun as being where they were.
My advice is. If youŕe somewhere. Be there.
If you want to talk to friends, or loved ones, is call them or see them.
I guarantee it will be much more fun than having a remote digital conversation, and if it isn’t maybe you should be with different people or change yourself.
