Love/Hate Relationship: Texting.

You don't truly know what I'm trying to say or how I'm reallly trying to say it, but at the same time I can say it to you so darn quickly. Does that make it worth the miscommunication? Let's dive in. First of all, the power to look down at your phone and see someone trying to reach out to you and straight up having the option ignore them is disgustingly strong. I'm sure that it's such a good thing to be able to escape conflict so quickly. Is it a cop out or a life saver? Ultimately your decision obviously, but it is definitely something to think about. I mean it is nice when you can be the one like, "HA, you sucked at school today and were rude so therefore I'm going to ignore you, peasant." But if you are the one being ignored, it's just punishment. Miscommunicating is all too common with texts. Sure, there are dozens of emojis and you can do exclamation points and all caps yattah-yattah but I am sorry (not really) to burst your little bubble but NOTHING can translate sarcasm like a face-to-face confrontational voice fluctuation and eye roll. And what if you tell a joke via text and the person replies "HAHAHAHAHA!!! OMG!!!" with all these laughing emojis but in reality thought it was the stupidest thing ever? Then, when you go somewhere thinking you're about to tell this amazingly successful joke and even as you deliver the punch line your audiences face never changes you'll either be confused or hate that other guy for pretending to laugh. Texting: can't talk with it, can't breathe without it.