Electronically speaking, we have it easier than our parents and theirs. Remember "Do you like me? circle one yes or no"? Now that joint can be in Times New Roman, all italicized and shit with a nice little gay smiley at the end, so Ms. Lady never has to know your handwriting sucks ass. Have you noticed that with increasing usage of social networking websites (i.e. Facebook and MySpace), instant messengers (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, etc.), and text messaging, more and more important topics have been downgraded to discussion on these mediums? Has everyone reading this note NOT been asked out or asked someone out via some form of technology? Has everyone NOT met at least one person in real life that they initially encountered and conversed with online? We can WWW our way through the most pivotal moments of life. Soon enough, women will be getting text messages like "will u marry me..lol", and instant messages from the doctor like "its a boy..ttyl".
Along with this increased casualization of all conversation topics via technology comes "textitude", this attitude/front some people put on behind the comfort of their cell phone screen. People will say anything in a text, perhaps because serious issues can be cushioned by an "lol", and face it - despite what "lol" literally stands for, it just doesn't quite have a live, audible equivalent. People will cuss eachother out in texts. People will "text sex", which is only hard copy evidence of your sluttiness. Gross. What happened to a good old fashioned face-to-face cuss out, or classic penis-into-vagina penetration following VERBAL dirty talk? Basically, if it can't be said out loud, it shouldn't be texted. That's just the easy "lol" way out.
