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Why I hate IM

The human speech pattern is an amazing thing. We, with our ability to communicate with our five senses, have developed conversation to such a degree that subtley, sarcasm, and innuendo have become commonplace among any social discussion. The advent of the internet, however, has seen the evolution of human interaction taken a couple of rather hazardous backsteps. While we are now capable of communicating with anyone in the world, perfect strangers or far off friends, we have managed to someone hide our voices, our personality-projectors, from this form of communication. The textual exchange has no innuendo, or subtley. It certainly doesn't have sarcasm. People readily take offense to casual conversation littered with slight jabs and sarcastic comments as if they were bond. It's incredibly easy to be misunderstood because your voices inflections are absent from the text in every way that counts and, to add insult (no pun intended) to injury, the sentence(s) in question are right there, spelled out on screen to always refer back to and remind the insulted of their anger.

Frankly, the whole thing makes me ill. We've spent decades, centuries, trying to develop forms of humor and sensitivity and subtley... to have it lost on some piece of crap "communication tool" marketed by AOL.

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

Think on it.

posted by AmeroKafka @ 7:23 PM