How convenient, easy, and quick has communicating become with BBM, email, Facebook statuses, instant messaging, and twitter? You can literally share any thought instantly with anyone with a few clicks of some keys. Think about this, if you have one thought every 15 seconds and you sleep 8 hours each night. That equates to 240 thoughts per minute, 14,400 thoughts per hour and 230,000 thoughts per day. That's a whole lot of thoughts we're just dying to share. For most of us, especially me, we're sharing these thoughts like they're going outta style. We do this with friends, family, and acquaintances too, which is "over communication" and can create a problem which is the premises behind this blog. 

All these quick and easy messaging techniques have really taken away from the way we've communicated for centuries. Even when the telephone was invented in 1876 until like fifteen years ago, we shared our thoughts without being face-to-face and without confusion or misinterpretation. However, the world is now full of mass confusion and leaves us all to assume the tone behind fonts.  If you think about it, no matter what the text says it can easily be taken out of context. All these ways of sharing thoughts without even so much as opening our mouths has made us lazier and lazier. It seems like we went from writing complete sentences in letters and eventually emails to short cutting even the simple way of talking. Pay attention to your texts, BBM's, emails, and tweets, and see how lazy people are. No more completing sentences with periods, no more spelling out entire words, and my favorite thing "..."! Those three little dots, those periods, those former stop signs at the end of a sentence, and we're all guilty of doing it. We do this to show a trailing thought or maybe a way no having an answer, or even to show annoyance/anger/etc.

Another thing people do is read into a sentence too much or too little, especially when you think you know the person who sent the message you're reading. I am INCREDIBLY guilty of this. I don't feel alone though, in fact I know I'm not the only one. Imagine all the drama created by someone taking a simple message out of context. Let's say it is a complete simple sentence, no trailing dots, no CAPS, and everything is right there in front of you. The chances of you misinterpreting the message are quite high. All these things could really be avoided by making a simple phone call. If you're like me, you don't want to be on the phone, you'd rather text. You know you're lazy, right?! Chill out, I am too. But, how can we fix this? Is it possible? Are we as a generation so sucked into technology that and finding the fastest way to talk to one another has brought upon a problem we can't change? Here's an idea that even I'm going to try. Let's make a point to send complete thoughts but make sure we proof read. If you look at the text and see that it could be confusing, send a text saying you're going to call the person and ELABORATE your thought rather than creating unnecessary confusion.  Give it a shot. 

Coming soon: Out of Context (Pt. n2): Facebook statuses and how they can be taken out of context more than any other social media.

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