Text messaging is destroying conversation

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At least, in my experience. Last night a whole hoo-haa kicked off over some stupid crap that was misinterpreted by text messages that got delivered the wrong way round.

A while I go I flat refused to discuss anything over text, but there are some people I just cant trust to tell me things to my face.... god knows why. The problem with texts is they just aren’t interpreted as *you* want them to, and what use is that in a discussion? There's no tone of voice, facial expressions or emotion.... it's just not good enough. Fwiw, this seems to only apply to females.

Dont get me wrong, text messaging has it's place ("Running late, mine's a Strongbow"), but I fear that with the younger generation being exposed to, and relying on the technology, the necessity of discussion will be lost and people will forget how to communicate.

Anybody else experience this?

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VIRII said:
Written communication always lacks the conveyance of tone and body language and is easier to misinterpret than face to face speech.
Such misinterpretations are commonplace (be they deliberate or otherwise) in SC.
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Written communication has it's place of course, but when you have other (better) methods, and when the conversation piece is reasonably important/personal... why do people still resort to text? Is it generational?
 
kitten_caboodle said:
I send texts because I'm quite anti-social at times. And for some reason, I hate phone calls and chats - although sometimes when I do get involved in a good chinwag, I really enjoy it and think I should do it more often.
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Well, being born in 1905 you certainly cant blame the generation gap... :p
 
Yewen said:
Text messages would be better if they were fully punctuated.

Always easier to read a fully worded and punctuated sentance than some random pile of letters covering 20 thoughts without a full stop yet alone a paragraph! :p
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Regardless though, if you had something important to say, are you happy to say it over text?

'ur dmped, lol'
 
MNuTz said:
Isnt that exactly like this forum? and the internet as a whole?
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Well yes, but it's not like we have any other option on here, whereas IRL, you can just go down the pub or something. Plus, you can take more time to try and express yourself better in this environment. You can type a lot more (and with proper language - no excuse with a real keyboard), do you best with the emoticons, place emphasis on words using formatting...
 
holly35 said:
some of you may know I love to talk
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I like it when you talk too :o

Rich_L said:
Who the hell could use 1750 texts in a month!! :eek:
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I had a mate who once had a ~£400 phone bill...... 3500 texts and I dont remember how many minutes...... IN A MONTH :/

Beansprout said:
I suppose years ago it wasn't so common for, er, the so-called common classes to write so much but these days there's easy access for everyone? Maybe that's a factor?
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Possibly, though I think that just brings us back to the age thing. Years ago it would have been big earning business type folk, and even if it was accessible to the 'common' types, I think most adults these days (thinking a generation or two above ours) couldn't read translate speak in the same way they couldn't translate arabic :p
 
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