Yeah,yeah yeah we all love to chat with our friends, boyfriends, workmates, neighbors and generally anyone who can keep a conversation going. With the new development of phones in the market, guys have opted to speak to the people offsite than the ones onsite hence the "antisocial behavior branding. The texting madness has crossed over to the a new phase where you can actually see when the person you are talking to is online and when they are actually replying the message.I almost think it gives all over us a stalking like behavior to check when so and so was online and when they were last seen online and when they replied your text.
Well, I do that at times especially when I have been talking to someone and the conversation was interesting enough to keep at it for hours then someone leaves you hanging yet you can literally see that they are online. There are so many times you want to cross over to the other end and punch the person on their face because they are taking long to reply."You are online, I can see you but you are ignoring me and I just want a reply...Please just start typing..."a disturbing monologue happening in your head hoping it may pull the other person to reply.
In relationships, the instant messaging madness has caused more drama than the facebook "relationship status " and "What are you thinking updates" because one is able to track you and see if you just plainly ignoring them or just simply not replying because something has actually happened to the phone. These days not many people can get away with "I did not see your text excuse" because my text was sent at 11.32 and you were last seen online at 12.46 so how exactly did you not see my text? or the excuse my phone must have been off yet the guy was online as you were typing the message. This does not get easier when you have several chats from whatsapp, bbm, google talk, facebook and twitter all in one device. This is because someone may ignore your bbm text but was last seen on whatsapp a few minutes after you text on bbm. What excuse will you give that person? I just did not see the bbm blink because I was strictly on whatsapp or guys who have linked their Facebook updates to bbm hence when they update it shows on bbm but the stupid fool is not replying.
I can tell you for free that this has caused a lot and I mean alot of drama in relationships and all I can say I prefer the days of letters whereby you have to patiently wait to receive a reply for months and in case the letter does not arrive, you may quickly blame it on the post office than literally seeing someone refusing to reply to a three word sentence.
My take on all this technology is a whole lot messier than the past inventions. A letter would have taken longer to arrive but always left a cleaner slate between the sender and receiver with regards to simple courtesy.
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