...Why People Are All Slowly Becoming Inconsiderate and Rather Anti-Social. To a Certain Point.

Ever since phones became affordable and internet became available to the common household, society has slowly changed even more from what it used to be. We no longer rely so much on "snail-mail" and stamps (gosh, who buys those anymore?) and now we rarely hog up the phone line by making hourly-long phone calls to our best friends (or even by using dial-up internet - oh good times) and telling them about how icky dinner was, what sleepover was lame and how the new Twilight movie is so good (my apologies, I attempted to channel my inner typical teenage girl - the other day I heard some of them talking on the bus and I really wanted to hit them with... the HOP card in my hand. I know it's not as dramatic as it was suppose to be. But usually people don't hold clubs or bats on the bus.) Instead we text, we instant message, we call on our own little phones (or via Skype etc) and we Facebook-wall post (now, with that new stalk bar there, I don't even think we need to ask what people are up to.)

But what are things that shouldn't be done by technology and actually done in person? Where do you draw that line? Texting, calling and talking over the internet is so much more handy and efficient, accessible and popular and you don't even need to leave the house - you can just find all this out sitting in your room. But what happened to good old conversations in the park? What happened to just hanging out for the sake of having a real life person there with you? Through technology, most people (even including me, sometimes) have lost the ability to have an actual deep, emotion conversation in person. It's so much easier doing it through a device that doesn't show you their real reactions and allows you time to think about your answers. But is that necessarily a good thing? Proper face-to-face conversations are so much more valuable than a long string of texts (with "lol" inserted every now and then for no reason). Texts, phone calls and what not may be efficient, but they are not capable of capturing the emotion, the connection and the meaningfulness of a real conversation.

And while we're on this, why have people become so inconsiderate? I hear frequently that people break up with their boyfriends/girlfriends over emails or text (or even Facebook messages). I even heard on the radio the other day this guy got fired by text. What the hell is up with that? Just because you can avoid their anger/sadness and get it over and done with in a simple message doesn't mean it's the best thing to do. It may be easy for you, but think of them. Think how they would view it, knowing that you don't even have the courtesy of telling them its over in person, or even on the phone. Have some respect people. Please step closer to the line where you can at least see it.