Texting

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Texting. I like it, yet hate it too. I confess, I text. I do it for convenience, to communicate something quick and short, but also when I don't want to talk to someone on the phone. However, I also believe it is inhibiting our children in learning the necessary skills of communication. They text to "get to know" someone, to ask someone out, to break up.... They text instead of talking. They are missing so much of the developmental process of becoming functioning individuals in society today. By not talking face to face, they are not learning to read different inflections in a voice or body language. Teens today will have an ongoing text for hours, instead of just dialing a number on their phone and have a normal chat with the person.

I also believe they often hide behind texting and often do not own up to the noncommittal, insinuated words because they were never spoken. It upsets me, and today because it has brought on heartache in my household, "I'm spitting mad about it" (as only a southerner would say). But, I have learned that I need to calm down and not spout off something I'll regret later, so that may just have to be a post from another day. So, for today, I DO NOT like texting, even though I have already done it 3 times this morning.