Stop Texting So Much and Look in Front of You

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“Hey, what’s up?” is a typical text message intro. You usually get it while you’re at home, doing chores, or somewhere really important. It’s the medium where you can reply without having to move your lips or disrupt everyone. To many, it’s the new thing, but to me, I think otherwise. I definitely do think it is convenient for when you can’t talk, but I also think it’s one of the most impersonal things ever. Some of you will say, well not talking in person is impersonal, but, texting goes to the point where someone you don’t even know can start up and engage in a conversation with you.

Personally, I do hate texting for many reason, one of them being that I can’t type fast enough and the other being that I get charged for every message sent. Recently, there has been someone who texted me, basically trying to encourage me to ask them to hang out. I would not have a problem calling back to talk and set up a hang out date, but this person, was someone I didn’t even know all that well. It was just a little creepy for me to get a text saying that I like doing something, when in fact, I don’t.

Aside from the creeper that sent me the text, I believe that the growing number of deaths is actually increasing from continual cell phone use. I constantly see teenagers and adults texting while driving- you know that let’s balance the steering wheel while we text with both hands. To me as a driver on the road, I get freaked out when people start to veer on the road in my lane. It used to frustrate me so much that I yelled at people. Now, I only honk and give them the finger.

I’m lucky in these instances, but my mom on the other hand was hit by a driver on his cellphone back in 2006. It’s just a shame that people can’t just put down the phone and focus on what they need to do. Not only on the roads, but also on the sidewalks. Girls on their phone texting as if they were reporting a story or something. They concentrate on it so much that the next thing that happens is that they slam right into someone or something.

All I have to say is get off your phone for one minute and look around you. If you have a lot to say, find a private place and talk with that person. There is nothing worse than your own text being used against you.