Comments on: OMG! 2 Much Texting https://www.okwassup.com/omg-2-much-texting/ News, Entertainment, Lifestyle and more! Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:37:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Mr.BD https://www.okwassup.com/omg-2-much-texting/#comment-10034 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:37:18 +0000 http://okwassup.com/2013/09/05/omg-2-much-texting/#comment-10034 These kids today are growing up stupid. They can’t hold a conversation because they never have to. They can’t spell or type a resume cover letter because all they do all day long is short hand text. They have no people skills and it is ridiculous . They think if they text to somebody they are having conversation. Some of them haven’t talked to another person in a year. Plus they can’t go five minutes without their phone. I remember reading about some kid that killed his mother because she took away his phone as a punishment. That is just crazy. Technology is a good thing but in this case I am not so sure.

]]> By: Truthiz1 https://www.okwassup.com/omg-2-much-texting/#comment-10032 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 17:41:14 +0000 http://okwassup.com/2013/09/05/omg-2-much-texting/#comment-10032 My first instinct was to rail about this deeply troubling trend (I call it chronic texting) and the obvious damage it’s doing, in particular, to the younger generation here in America.

But then I took a moment to consider this following reality…..isn’t CT just one more sad example of how corrupting so much of American culture is? I say, Yes.

The fact that so many young people lack communicative and other social developmental skills…to say nothing of their academic and intellectual functioning level….sadly is NOT a new. I’d say it’s all been been steadily in decline for at least the past 25 or 30 years. And be it chronic texting or chronic tweeting. Both, IMO, are clear signs of an increasingly dumb-down, know-nothing, society.

Btw- if you really want to be alarmed – try having a discussion with the average youth today about any of the “STEM” disciplines (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). To say nothing of Civics and History (any concentration). Very much like the “know-nothing” currently occupying the White House, many, if not most, young people have NOT a clue about any of it.

Many young people couldn’t articulate themselves even if their lives depended on it. Many don’t know how to appropriately dress -or even behave – for a given occasion. It’s pitiful. Just pitiful. But I digress.

I have a cell-hone but I rarely use. The rapid pace of increased dependence on cell-phones throughout our society has always bothered me. And now that that dependence has progressed to (NON-verbal) texting, i really doesn’t surprise me at all. The consequences of such damaging dependence was, I believe, always predictable.

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