listen to me
while i love the internet and spend more time with a computer than any physical person, there are some detrimental aspects to our society's information age...
email & social networking are great and i'll admit that i am capable of what i'm about to vent, but the online world really allows people to be neglectful, misinterpreted, or even rude. i'd love to go back to school and study the sociological aspects of email and text messaging, and how it has changed personal interaction over the past decades.
have people really become more self-centered?
are we just busier?
were people just as rude/ignorant in the last century? i feel like manners and etiquette have taken a nose-dive. i'm really interested in manners and social mores. i'd like to take an ettiquette course, if for nothing more than preserving a dying social language...like taking latin.
i'm also too sensitive when it comes to electronic communication - was an email ignored because the person hates me now? of course that's what i think, but there are plenty of better reasons for why a person does not respond. i always imagine that the person looks at the sender and clicks delete with a sigh of disgust...heh.
i need to reframe these situations in my head. i am a good person, whom most people like or even love. my ideas are valid, intelligent, and mostly well thought out. i am interesting and deserve to be heard.
i also need to change my methods of communication. if a response is important to me, then a phone call is necessary. i cannot bitch about a neglected email without realizing that others may not prefer this line of communication...
repeat mantra: i will not worry about things outside of my circle of control...
new mantra: i am a beautiful and intelligent person worthy of being heard...
now i will have a good day!
off to groceries, bank, house-cleaning, and cake making!
email & social networking are great and i'll admit that i am capable of what i'm about to vent, but the online world really allows people to be neglectful, misinterpreted, or even rude. i'd love to go back to school and study the sociological aspects of email and text messaging, and how it has changed personal interaction over the past decades.
have people really become more self-centered?
are we just busier?
were people just as rude/ignorant in the last century? i feel like manners and etiquette have taken a nose-dive. i'm really interested in manners and social mores. i'd like to take an ettiquette course, if for nothing more than preserving a dying social language...like taking latin.
i'm also too sensitive when it comes to electronic communication - was an email ignored because the person hates me now? of course that's what i think, but there are plenty of better reasons for why a person does not respond. i always imagine that the person looks at the sender and clicks delete with a sigh of disgust...heh.
i need to reframe these situations in my head. i am a good person, whom most people like or even love. my ideas are valid, intelligent, and mostly well thought out. i am interesting and deserve to be heard.
i also need to change my methods of communication. if a response is important to me, then a phone call is necessary. i cannot bitch about a neglected email without realizing that others may not prefer this line of communication...
repeat mantra: i will not worry about things outside of my circle of control...
new mantra: i am a beautiful and intelligent person worthy of being heard...
now i will have a good day!
off to groceries, bank, house-cleaning, and cake making!