Comments on: Give Up and Embrace Text Messaging http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/04/13/give-up-and-embrace-text-messaging/ A National Blog of Literature & Discussion Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:47:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tim Cullen http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/04/13/give-up-and-embrace-text-messaging/#comment-2810 Tim Cullen Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:33:57 +0000 http://www.vqronline.org/blog/?p=1891#comment-2810 "Does it mean that we are too busy to really connect in a meaningful way, too chained to our technology to be human, too sloppy with our communication to hold onto the rules of language that have shaped generations of literature and oratory?" I'd say that texting, emailing and interactions over facebook have all rendered a number of social interactions that were heretofore over-conversational and over-formalized into their much more efficient essential communicative elements. The sentiments that power these interactions had too much baggage--now they are all they really ever needed to be. We as a society are better for that. “Does it mean that we are too busy to really connect in a meaningful way, too chained to our technology to be human, too sloppy with our communication to hold onto the rules of language that have shaped generations of literature and oratory?”

I’d say that texting, emailing and interactions over facebook have all rendered a number of social interactions that were heretofore over-conversational and over-formalized into their much more efficient essential communicative elements. The sentiments that power these interactions had too much baggage–now they are all they really ever needed to be. We as a society are better for that.

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