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Today’s infatuation with technology has gone from cute, "How cool, I can make a smiley face :)" to obsessive "I need a phone that can e-mail, text, take video/pictures, surf the net, create PowerPoint presentations, walk the dog, and mow the lawn!" quicker than it takes to actually mow the lawn using your newest device! Okay okay, so there isn’t a phone that can mow the lawn or walk your dog. Yet! Kidding.

The competition is so hot right now that it isn’t long before your newest toy becomes yesterdays news. At&t came out with the iphone on June 29^th of this year and it debuted at about $599, three months later the price was cut by $200. Now Verizon has launched their counterattack, a touch screen phone that flips open to reveal a qwerty keypad, the Voyager. Windows came out with Vista and now Apple has come out with Leopard. Digital cameras used to be marketed by megapixels and now its by whether or not they have face detection. The list just goes on and on.

What I wanted to get to was this, now with technology being delivered at an all time high, we want our communication to flow the same way. Gone are the days of calling each other to see where you’ll be meeting up later, or checking your e-mail to see if anything new has come up. Who does these things now? Cavemen? No, if you want information chances are it’s coming thru in the form of a text. So not only have we decided that calling each other would take too long but we’ve also decided that writing also takes too long so now something as simple as "I love you" has turned into ily. Can someone please tell me how three simple letters can possibly hold that much meaning? I’m not one to point fingers, I personally love texting. Okay, well I’d say it’s more of a pastime but depending on who you’re asking it can be more of a fixation, haha. Texting has overcome the free time of every person in America, young and old alike. It’s gotten to such a point that now college students are turning in homework and professors are applying for jobs using the text language. Some people have mastered texting in such a way that they can even manage driving while, yes you guessed it, texting.

Every where you turn there walking right past you is a person with their heads buried in their phones and their thumbs in the texting position. Before you know it there’ll be more cell phones with qwerty keypads than there will be cell phones that actually call people! So until that day comes try not to growl when your friend cancels your plans for the night with a text instead of a call, just relax, breathe, pray your cell phone provider has a sweet plan for texting and let your fingers do the talking.

*For those of you who are still a little behind and seem to be somewhat text illiterate I’ve added a few pointers for you here, enjoy!

LOL: laughing out loud

PPL: people

OMG: oh my god

SPK: speak

TMI: too much information

BTW: by the way

WKND: weekend

IDK: i dont know

SRY: sorry