Texting

I wonder what we were like before the “Texting” phenomenon took over our lives. What happened to the days when we called each other? I remember the days when I had a pager (Yes, I’m dating myself) in the 1990’s. On of the coolest tricks in those days was turning numbers into words. Hello and Besos would scroll across my pager and it was a good feeling. I now realize that this was “Texting” in its infancy. I had begun to be a part of something we now do so impersonally. Soon after pagers had “Qwerty” keyboards and texting had begun to take off. The late 90’s came and we all had the ability to use and afford cell phones. We could call and talk to each other and enjoy one on one conversations. Then something came back into the fray. Texting wouldn’t allow us to hear each others voice. Technolgy decided we again need to use our keypads and start becoming impersonal again.
Fast forward to present day and we don’t even think twice about it. City, County, State and Federal employees all communicate via Text now. There are even apps on our cell phones that even allow us to use our voice to text each other. We talk so we can Texted each other because tapping a touch screen is getting to hard now? Wasn’t the point of having a cell phone was to call each other? Cell carriers make it even easier to keep this going by offering unlimited plans for Texter’s. I for one still text and talk with my cell but I have to admit when I really don’t want to talk to someone I sure enjoy tapping my screen. Hopefully one day I’ll be able to text my bill collectors, that way I don’t have to here all the voicemails.