Methodists Against Text Messaging
from the this-sounds-familiar dept
It's amazing to me after all these years that we still have people who decide to complain that the internet or some related technology makes people interact less. The latest is the new head of the Methodist Church who is complaining that people don't interact with each other because they're sending text messages to each other instead of talking to them face to face. That they may be text messaging with interesting people they might not otherwise be able to talk to doesn't seem to occur to him. That they may be text messaging with people who they in a way that lets them have more detailed, more educational, more interesting conversations doesn't seem to occur to him either. There's this awful assumption that a "different" form of communication must be worse.
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Low tech causes this too
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There's also an awful assumption that anything new is superior to anything old.
> That they may be text messaging with people who they in a way that lets them have more detailed, more educational, more interesting conversations doesn't seem to occur to him either.
How does text messaging make someone more expressive, better able to learn or interesting when compared to speech? Would the war on terror go better if the military had an m-Life? Would Einstein have been smarter if he had a Motorola 2-way pager? Text Messaging lets those with social anxieties avoid their problems and children to pretend they are like so totally cool and stuff.
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