This is completely off topic, as it has nothing to do with music which is what I would normally write about. This is truly something that bothers the shit out of me though and I need to tell someone! Text messaging sucks! Don’t get me wrong, I send and receive about 5,000 texts a month. That statistic makes me somewhat of an authority on the matter. At least it does in my opinion.
Okay, let’s start at the beginning, with the biggest thing that text messaging is ruining.
Punctuation
No one uses it anymore! Is it so hard to end a statement with a period and a question with a… Wait, what comes at the end of a question again? Damn, apparently the text messaging curse is starting to effect me as well. Regardless, it seems as if run on sentences are just part of our every day lives now.
Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms
WTF! LOL! LMBO! STFU! No, really! Shut the fuck up! These things piss me off! I understand that we are all fat, lazy, assholes who are too busy checking social networking sites and seeing what the Kardashian’s are up to to type out entire words, but this has gotten out of control IMHO (In My Honest/Humble Opinion, for those of you who actually still write words). Take a little pride in your communication skills and say something that people care to read. Half the time you just put “LOL” at the end of a sentence because you didn’t know what punctuation to use. Practice makes better folks!
And now for my biggest pet peeve…..
Lack of verbal communication skills
Have you noticed that people don’t talk anymore? It’s because we forgot how. Sad but true! I predict that my kids great grandchildren won’t even have the ability to speak. We don’t need it! Everything is typewritten and sent instantaneously to the person sitting on the couch beside us already anyway. Why bother actually speaking to them? I remember the good old days when I could go to the bar and get slapped in the face for staring at a woman’s breasts! That doesn’t even happen anymore because she’s too busy posting pictures of her and all her drunk friends to Facebook to notice the puddle of drool on the table! What has the world come to? Don’t even bother attempting to hold a conversation with a woman at the bar (or church, or the park, or anywhere else) anymore. First of all, you can’t communicate in full sentences well enough to convey any sort of message. Second, “LOL” sounds ridiculous when spoken. Third, she can’t hear your jumbled nonsensical bullshit anyway! That’s right, we have officially lost the ability to hear anything except the tones that our phones use to tell us we have a new text message! It was only a matter of time, right? So, pull out your phones and start texting all your friends to let them know that some asshole on the internet says they are stupid. Go ahead, do it! It’s not my fault that you took offense to the truth.
Do me a favor. Grab a book. Have an elderly person that isn’t senile yet teach you how to read it. Use the information that you have learned to improve your life and stop making mine a living nightmare!
Thank you!
