I recently read an article about how younger people were no longer using emails to communicate but instead chose text or short little messages understandable by only those who text short messages. Suddenly formulating and constructing sentences has become a burden for everyone just until recently when most of us though we had arrived if we were using email. Forget snail mail, it's really hard to remember when i sent a personal email to someone and got back a reply. Most of my friends no longer stay in touch with email. "You should have texted me" or even "scrapped me" (oops) they would probably say. I fail to understand whether communication has shrunk or worst, have the ideas and thoughts shrunk that one can express only in teeny weenie little messages on facebook, orkut, twitter etc. Blogging is already considered passé and tweeting is in. Schools who used to ask their wards to write an essay in no more than 600 words would be soon asking kids to tweet their creative ideas in, say a dozen words. The whole trend is turning out to be a gadget makers convenience as the opportunities for them are as clear as the trends. It just takes someone to figure out how to serve the public's falling attention span with the ever shorter and more perfunctory communication, itsy-bitsy sentences, sentences without verbs, dropped vowels. People want information in smaller packets today and very soon twitter and texting will be too prolix for the evolved. The apps that drive the market and the devices will shrink the human expression to down to a nub that can be hosted on a touch screen no larger than the size of a biscuit. Don’t be surprised if you are not heard if you cannot express something in a single character...K? Very soon, each letter of the alphabet will have assigned words..
watdya thnk? cmmnts pls?
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