Texting during the time of COVID-19
There’s never anything like getting a letter in the mail. Or a newspaper in the morning. But in today’s society, people prefer to send a quick text, or give someone a quick phone call. But what is that doing to our relationships?
Psychologist Maggie Mulqueen (NBC) said, “It’s just too easy.” In today’s day and age, it is just too easy to send a text to someone instead of a letter. But sometimes, a letter just makes everyone’s day a lot better. That’s how it was done before the telephone, but unfortunately, the tradition has not continued. What’s even more important, is that lack of punctuation has ruined or caused problems in many relationships.
For example:
Okay!
Ok!
Okay.
Ok.
Okay
Ok
All six words can be taken with a completely different tone of voice when read as a text. Another downside, is the madness caused inside one’s head when someone doesn’t respond. The amount of social and mental anxiety that this can cause has been crippling (Elite Daily). The feeling you get when someone doesn’t answer can be devastating: What happened? What did I do wrong? I ruined it? Was I too harsh?
But then, 45 seconds later, they text back. And those three dots at the bottom of the screen are a lifeline. And finally, there is a response. And then we respond. And the cycle continues.
However, there are upsides to technology. Being “one call away” has saved many lives since the first cell phone. Especially during the time of COVID-19, technology has managed to salvage many relationships (She Knows). Unfortunately, it has also ruined so many due to high tensions, lack of social interaction, and fear of the virus. Technology has many blessings, and many curses.
So what is the solution?
The solution is… there is no solution.
Maybe, just maybe, our ancestors and their snail-mail ways were on to something. And maybe, just maybe, we can figure out a way unique to our generation that provides us with the resources to see each other again.

#rhs
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/texting-really-ruining-personal-relationships-ncna1097461

https://www.elitedaily.com/dating/sex/texting-ruins-relationship/1685455

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