- Text messages are just about as impersonal as it can get. Gee, how heartfelt and caring of you to send me and 50 of your closest friends the same message. If you actually cared that extremely much about wishing someone a happy holiday, you might...oh no, don't say it...actually call the person. What a flippin' crazy idea.
- Waste of time and, in Justin's case, money. We've already established the extreme unpersonablitiy (is that a word?) of the texts, so let's follow that theme here a little more. Wouldn't it just be better/easier/cheaper to wait until you see the messagee to tell him/her Happy Thanksgiving. Sure, its a few days late but that's ok. You can ask about what they did for the holiday, how the break went, etc. Oh, what's this, you only see the person at random times or in that one class you just happen to have together once a week, you say? Yeah, you probably don't care that much anyway.
- Fake friends. Ok, so maybe most people don't have this stupid complex but I sure do and I bet Nitza and several of our other friends do too...or it at least irritates the hell of out them. Gee, how nice, so-and-so are talking to me. Wait, we have homework due this week. Gee, isn't it convenient how you called now? Last week, no homework=no communication. You'd think they dropped off the face of the earth. Oh no, they were just out with their better friends but thought since some homework/test/project/other thing requiring a "smart person" is on the horizon, they should put in a call to the nerd of choice. So call me cynical. Maybe some people are just trying to be nice and exchange pleasantries but experience has taught me otherwise many, many times. Oh, let me count the times people have suddenly stopped talking to me when we no longer had classes together...
Terribly sorry if I offended you, random anonymous commenter. Grow some skin.
1 comment:
Holy crap! Are you trying to get me killed?! My tortured soul rests only in the knowledge that "Anonymous" doesn't read this, else you'd be fanning the flames engulfing my festive holiday sweater!
But allow me to reinterpret number 3 in a way that satiates my current peeve... People who say they're your friends to the ends of the earth and then don't back it up with actions. *Layiths the smackith down!!* Maybe like the people who come up to you when they see you (Twice a year) and are like, "OMG I haven't seen you in forever! Let's hang out some time!" but you know darn well they will never call (Unless they have computer problems al la your number 3); they will never stop by; they will never do anything. If you suggest doing something you're pushed to the back burner and nothing ever arises from it, basicly stating that you're a waste of their time. Oh, and then you get a holiday text from them.
Yeah, so this is pretty much a blog post within a blog post. I think I'll just copy and paste the word verification letters to you now before I completely take over.
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