Texting is such a convenient form of communication. It’s astonishing to realize how many ordinary conversations and activities have been revolutionized by the ability to click on a few letters and push ‘send.’ You needn’t speak to one another…Which is more impersonal than an answering machine, and it matters not if the recipient doesn’t pick up the phone, as in days of yore when you could actually ‘miss’ someone. What could possibly go wrong?
While I often imagine that the culture of weird spelling and abbreviations necessary to save time and space is changing the face of our language into an unrecognizable dialect, Key and Peele find that there are other hazards to encounter while texting.
There are unique challenges when you can’t hear the other person’s voice, or see their face, the better to judge their mood and meaning of their words. How much worse then, when you have little or no written context either. A friendly reminder can become a menacing threat in 140 characters or less!
It is apparent that I am not easily corralled by 140 digits. I just deleted 400 words on ‘the good olde days’ that no one wants to hear! .