Texting.

Nearly everyone on the entire earth now has a phone, it's one of the inventions that took over the world and became a necessity; one that while breaking limitations...somehow put more in place in terms of sociability. But let's be honest they're too useful to go moaning about, and there are theories upon theories about how phones make us 'more sociable' along with theories that say they do the exact opposite and we would have been better without them. Socially restricting, socially free-ing or a bit of both, either way it's a pretty darn important piece of technology. As we all know with all technology ranging from government computers to the simplest of things like an electric pen (I'm sure that exists...) there's always something that we find tricky or that goes wrong. In this case, with me and with texting there's plenty that goes wrong. So starting with the keys and predictive text; so many texts around the world are sent with hilarious or kind of awkward implications because we've pressed the wrong keys and been pulled into the inescapable grasp of predictive texts. So when you get someone like me with overly large hands equipped with equally large fingers these mistakes are all too frequent and being a fairly talkative person I text quite a lot but then we get the second problem; over-thinking. Because in the past I've fallen into the predictive trap I tend to take longer to reply because I'm spending a few minutes staring and re-reading the text over and over again to make sure there's no mistakes but then you've just wasted 2 minutes of your life checking a text...
Now this next problem doesn't seem to affect many people that I know, but I'm convinced that it affects lots more than me! When you get someone that enjoys writing in whatever form it be, blog, fiction, non-fiction etc or in-fact if you just have someone that has a lot to say writing a text that is brief becomes one of the trickiest tasks ever encountered. Honestly I can't get my head around it, I've sent texts before and thought after "Really? Couldn't you just have said that in a few words?" and I probably could have but when writing it my brain is just incapable of shortening it down unless it's really needed. Other problems faced texting; sarcasm and the problem of making it actually come across and for that matter any emotion at all, I mean let's be honest we'd be useless without emoticons; someone would say something that was gut-wrenchingly heat breaking for them and without some cartoon sad face we might never know how hard they've taken it! The problems of modern day people, hey? How do we ever survive?
Just to put it out there this isn't a moany blog, this is just my way of talking about phones and trying to relate with y'all (whoever you may be) phone's are great, I use mine SO much, GO TECHNOLOGY!