When I think of hours spent on the internet chatting with my out of town friends about daily problems. They intervene and help me over coming difficult situation that I couldn't solve by myself. When I'm at work, my close friend girl always sending me an email asking how is my day going. Sometimes it's fine, and sometimes it's not. When it's not, she always intervene with a scripture or a word from God.
I became to feel a relief of someone who cares about how I'm doing. We can pick up the phone right then and have a long conversation, but a simple text can change a dark day until a bright day.
I belive the texting itself, helps relieves tention during the day. When we type any thoughts, we usually type really fast. This relieve tension of anger, I do believe.
After all, when causing a distraction, releases!
So, bonding on the internet leads to a strong healthy relationshiop that will lock in a good friend.
I don't know about that "texting relieves tension" part. To me texting is even more frustrating than emailing, or blogging, or most any other kind of communication that doesn't involve direct verbal communication. It takes too long to type anything and if you are gong to have more than one or two texts in either direction, it's much more efficient to pick up the phone and call.
ReplyDeleteI think for teens, the kind of things they're texting are not "heavy" important discussion topics, it's the general social chit chat, things like "what's up," "where are you" "what are you doing after class," etc. A lot of texting is used for coordination, so the messages are generally short and quick, and for experienced teens anyway, can by typed quickly.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if they relieve tension, but they do help grease the wheels of social life.
I think the research and what you are talking about is ideally fitting the mold of connecting the communities in the just the new way that is via digital communication. Honestly, the connections whether deep or coordinating events are stretching our communicating limits to new heights.
ReplyDeleteThat nice my mother sends my Bible scriptures too!I believe texting allows you to say what you can't say over the phone. This is why I think teens do it a lot because they have a lot on their minds and can not express it f2f.
ReplyDeleteI don't agree or disagree with your last statement really, because I believe it is different for everyone. But with "texting relieves stess" statement. I do. I think that because the digital media has placed itself ever so conveniently in the laps of every American, that atleast our nation has the need to speak out. It doesnt even have to be about something important. As long as the words are out there, it counts.
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