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To love in
times of the Internet
R we in luv
with our txt msgs??
By CLAC - 2014
Years
ago one could have said that the ultimate objective in life for human beings
was to find an endless and lasting love. Boys and girls would pursue to find
their significant ones to keep and to share forever, to pass on their ideas, feelings
and history; sadly, those ideas are no more. Nowadays, “never-ending love” survives
one or two months if lucky. And relationships as such are at distance and in
written form; young people communicate and transmit their feelings, thoughts
and beliefs through images or selfies and weird text messages which sometimes are
as long as ten LETTERS!!! Is technology adding or taking away desire which is a
vital element of romance? It has been said a lot about love through centuries;
how to find it, cherish it and maintain it forever and ever. Not so long ago, people would wait by their
home phones for a call, nowadays they keep watching over the “last seen at” on
WhatsApp, or wait for that “ping” from their loved ones or at least an emoji to
indicate that their message was received.
Once
you get a phone, the object of your affection is only a second away from
communication, but the question there is does that make romance bloom or wither
away like roses that are so representative of love around the world.
“I
think it takes away and gives something more,” says author Milan Vohra, India’s
first M&B writer. “Longing can be built through connectivity because a text
message or a WhatsApp message can help build up the romance, until the couple
meets. And if one of them is busy, they can simply communicate that and keep
the chemistry going by, say putting up a link to a song or an indirect status
message that the other knows is meant for him or her.”
Even
physical contact has a new nature with the so-called sexting; couples believe
it is okay to share intimate pictures of themselves through the cell phone. And
once they are leaked to the public they cannot believe it!
I
wonder what my grandma would have said if she were alive about this situation.
Would she have stayed with grandpa for so long? Would she have sent selfies and
updated her FB account? Or would she have accepted to even use a cell phone?
Every day, everywhere, at all times people are checking whether they
have received a WhatsApp, a Selfie, a Poke, or a Tweet. It´s insane! One can
notice somebody has received a txt msg or call because they even flinch and
their body language changes. They are constantly aware of the phone and its
notifications. If they are having a conversation of some kind and they get a
cell notification, they phub (ignore
a person or one's surroundings in a social situation by busying oneself with a
phone or other mobile device) their interlocutor and stop paying attention to
the conversation.
E-mail used to be very popular at the beginning; however, nowadays it is
mainly used to communicate in formal contexts like workplaces and offices; the
new generation doesn´t like to write much and when they do, they will use
shortcuts and abbreviations which mean nothing for older people! Things like…
“RUOK?
Want 2 go 2 cinema L8R? BTW Z´s coming. TMB B4 U leave home?”. = 49 letters
Translation:
Are
you Okay? Do you want to go to the cinema later? By the way, Z is coming. Text
me back before you leave home. = 89 letters
Txt msg
|
Meaning
|
C U L8R M8
|
See you later mate
|
B4
|
Before
|
AFAIK
|
As far as I know
|
W8 4 ME, I´M L8, SOZ
|
Wait for me, I’m late, sorry
|
KIT
|
Keep in touch
|
RUOK?
|
Are you okay?
|
LUWAMH
|
Love you with all my heart
|
HAND
|
Have a nice day
|
Zzzzzzzzz
|
Boring!
|
KOTL
|
Kiss on the lips
|
TMB
|
Text me back
|
It is very
common, nowadays, to use text messaging as a form of communication in many
different situations: to ask somebody out on a first date, to finish a
relationship, to wish a friend a happy birthday, to say sorry to a friend for a
mistake you made, to ask for advice, for a teacher to tell you the homework,
for a teacher to give you your grades or arrange a meeting, for schools to keep
in touch with parents, to arrange a doctor´s appointment, to renew books at the
library, to book videos at the video store, and so on…
Emoticons and emojis are another way to send text
messages. Emoticons are little pictures made out of punctuation marks. Here are
some examples:
- :-) = happy face :-(
= sad face
- ;-D = winking grin @--^---
= a rose
Emojis are forms of animated emoticons for smart
phones:
💓👉👀👄😘💏🙉🙊
These things have also evolved, they are now animated
and colorful with sound and music which drive older people crazy!
So
just to check if you are “in onda” try and decipher this txt msg:
-CUL8R, LtsGt2gthr, 4EVRYRS –
Till next time! ;)
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