Getting out of bed today was harder then normal. Who would of thought after all that relaxing at home I would want to continue sleeping today away. I guess it was all that late night texting I was doing. Why does social networking, texting and im-ing seem to run our lives? Well, its just so damn easy to be the person you want to be behind a screen or a keyboard. What have we come to, all I find myself wanting to do anymore is text. I can have a whole conversation and plan a whole weekend without ever picking up a phone. The sad thing is I like it.
Its easier to tell people what they want to hear when you know they can't see you and read your face and how you really don't think or feel like that at all. It may seem to be easier but I assure you its the devil. Life will never be easier because of this, and relationships(the most difficult thing in life) made easier, can't be all that good. I think all this does them way more harm then good. I always find my self texting in an emotional state, good or bad, thats when I want to do it the most. And if Im in a bad mood there is no telling what I'll say.
Thing is, once you hit send, that shit is gone. Across a wire and on its way, nothing you can do about it. Do you ever find yourself, like me, trying to dig out of that hole you just built by accidently sending an angry message. Maybe you sent it to the wrong person entirely. Good luck with that. They can save those messages forever, and if your really lucky they will and when shit gets bad again, they will revert back to them. Remembering how crazy you sounded, how crazy you acted. Never forgetting, never letting go.
OH, and don't forget the ever so popular drunk texting, we have all done it at least once in our lives. This kind of texting is the very worst. You are usually one of two things: Madly in love with the recieving indavidual, where you text them how much you miss them, how great they are, what you want to do to them the next time you see them. Maybe how you owe them the world and your so glad to have them in your life, but most importantly what you want to do to them. Or you hate them with every bone in your body, they suck, you never want to see them again, how dare they call themselves your friend. Damn them for breathing, they are worthless and somehow they single handedly ruined your life.
See, its always one of the two, if its in between and your drunk, you don't even bother sending a message. Those in between people only matter if the one your madly in love with wont pick your drunk ass up and bring you home. The great thing about this drunk texting, you are always 100% in the right, until the exact second when you sober up and check your phone history. Then wheather you were madly in love with the person, or hated their guts, I think the feeling of regret is about equal. Depending I guess on the person.
Then of coarse all the images we send back and fourth via cell phones and the web. Have we all forgotten that once you post that picture of your half naked ass, anyone in the world can down load it to there desktop. Your "friends" can forward it to anyone they see fit. Some perve in another country has access to your "day at the beach" pic where you might just be wearing your new favorite bikini.... Something tells me I bet its his favorite too. We allow ourselves to be exploited and most times we don't even realize it. Im just getting over all this, it seems to do me more harm then good. So easy, yet so possible damaging, if your not carefull.
We are poisoning our relationships with all this, the acusations and misstrust that so many people find themselves swimming in because of the ease we have to stay in contact with 2000 people we don't really know through things like Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook. I must admit, I use the hell out of some facebook, but I find myself wishing I never started. Its a damn addiction. I am just glad I don't get completely wrapped up in it. I know people that can't live without it. People that feel the need to Tweet their every action. Why on earth would you want 1 billion people that also tweet and follow, be able to know your every action. We just make it easy, who needs to be a window stalker anymore. They have access to way more personal shit via the net and things you intentionally posted. We have lost our minds.
If you truely care about someone, and don't just like the "post" they probably stole from a book or the web, then I suggest you actually go spend time with them. Giving yourself time to actually get to know the real them. If they are to far away, then pick up the phone. Its not as great as being in person. But better then the rest.
I am sorry for all my friends who have been on the recieving end of any drunken angry texts I may have sent since the creation of cell phones and unlimited texting. ;)
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