The Dangers of Texting

Good day Steemian's

Today I would like to discuss what I perceive to be the dangers of texting. I am not speaking in terms of texting while driving, we all know this is dangerous, and if you don't have the foresight to understand why it's dangerous, I don't think you should be behind the wheel of a car.

What other dangers could there be, you might ask?

Simply put, the danger lies within our perception. I would like for a moment, for you to think of how many ways you can say to someone "That is really cool."

It may or may not occur to you, just how many ways this simple line of information can be communicated, but it is substantial.

It is the inflection we create our own narrative with, and this inflection is heavily influenced by what is going on in our mind at the present moment. Consider for one moment, that you are having a rough day, anxiety is high, and general thought process is negative. If someone is to then text you and say "Where the hell have you been bro?", it is easy to see how misconstrued inflection can occur with this example, and it happens more often than most realize.

Inflection is often misunderstood with my text messages. I'm very direct and to the point, descriptive in my nature, and this usually is interpreted as arrogant, condescending, conceded, and difficult to process for many. There are times of course, when I have the capacity to address others in this manner, and it's certainly a character deficit that I have noticed about myself, but most of the time, this is not the case. I'm a compassionate, empathetic individual, with control issues to a degree, and I am overly critical with details.

7 out of 10 millennial's prefer to text over talking on the phone, according to certain sources, and I think it's a rather accurate statistic. I am not one of these individuals.

I vehemently state, my willingness to talk on the phone, as well as implicitly stating my preference to speaking on the phone vs text. I explain very carefully why I feel this way, and the reception is generally never met. I've yet to really befriend a person who shares this commonality, and it's daunting to me.

The problems I encumber from texting frustrate me beyond my ability to express. It is very difficult for people to see this fallacy, and accept it.

The fallacy is not with me, and not with the opposing individual in a misconstruction of inflection. The fallacy lies within our nature. We are creatures of consumption, competing for economical, and psychological driven edges, and we create these narratives autonomously, without the slightest cognition of doing so. This is a deficit in our nature of perception. A competitive creature, will be swayed by the whims of selfishness. Whether we wish to believe such a statement or not. It's hardly debatable in my opinion.

Where does this tie in with the "awareness" factor? It's a daily struggle to say the least. To explain this to unassuming, unaware fakebooker's is like trying to mate a frog with a horse, it's not going to happen. I have looked people in the eye's, and explained to them the spell they are under, and have received a literal "deer in headlights" response almost every time. The wash is real, and it's our inherent duty to recognize it. I empathize with those who are already a victim of this prison. I may unassumingly be one of them, actively playing my role in the matrix without even realizing, who know's really.. I am seriously digressing from the topic at hand. Let's move on.

I've recently been dealing with some inflection troubles, if it wasn't obvious from the context of this post, and I am not really sure how to deal with it. One phenomenon I've noticed that takes place in this process, is a person's willingness to say things they likely wouldn't say in person, to an opposing individual. This isn't exactly indicative of cowardice, but it's indicative of psycho-social problems in my opinion. There is a safety net that comes with the territory, and people have become more comfortable acting disproportionate to their nature because of it. when confronted in person about their words, there is either apology looming, or flat out dismissal.

I find texting to be corrosive for certain personality types. Certain individuals I text very well with, and with others, catastrophic results occur over and over again. Even with patching up, dusting off, and trying again with certain individuals, I'm reminded of the definition of insanity.

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This isn't what they say in rehabs and institutions however. "Repeating the same pattern over and over, while expecting different results", is generally what I have heard time and time again to be the definition of insanity.

So when patching up those misconstrued inflections, that end in turmoil, lack of trust, and insecurities towards a relationship, I can't help to wonder what people are thinking, when they repeat these corrosive patterns. I get to a point where debate is no longer viable as a solution. I start rapid firing solutions, very logical based solutions, and I am generally met with little to no reception. Am I the only one who notices a disconnect in this area?

To me, it's a disconnect with ourselves, and a bi-product of the technology revolution.

We must not forget what makes us human. We must asses the good, and the bad that come with this technology, and we must act accordingly, or we will all become mindless, insecure drones on a touch screen.

Thank you for reading. If this resonates with anyone, I am happy to discuss the implications of the dangers of texting.

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