A message to the world

[robb_d]

Here's a rare self-expository LJ post

Comments

[thepastrypixie]

Women need the personal interaction of the phone, we like to hear our loved ones voice, and while chatting online might work a lot of the time, it doesn't work for most of us in the long run. It creates a barrier. You can't read an inflection. When you tell someone you love them in text, it's TEXT, words on a screen, it's the inflection of the words when you say them that make them so special.

[psychyomind]

that is true too, I can't remember how many times I have been IMing with someone and completely miss read how they were feeling. That can turn very bad.

[thepastrypixie]

Yep. I have nearly killed people.

[with_my_pistola]

meeee too!

[thepastrypixie]

Yesss

[icedragon136]

That's what the emoticons are for! But woe be unto those who accidentally select the wrong one...

[crystalll333]

I hate stupid smiley faces... If I ever see someone who remotely looks like a smiley face walking around I'll kick him in the balls... I mean face.

[psychyomind]

Emoticons only work when the other person is actually using them, otherwise they are a mute point.

[icedragon136]

Of course if you tell someone you love them in text then you don't have to worry about sounding sincere when you say it. :p

[icedragon136]

On a more serious note, you make a good point, and it's precisely why I don't know if I would ever be able to have a long distance relationship. Forget hearing them, I need to see them.

I have occasionaly made exceptions, though, when someone (friend or more) has been away for a while. And then there's my friend Kim who I don't mind talking to on the phone. I don't really know why, but it doesn't bother me.

So anyway, I think the moral here is that I'm a weirdo when it comes to phones.

[thepastrypixie]

And that is such a mature comment. If you're going to tell someone you love them you should mean it, otherwise you aren't mature enought to even use the words.

[icedragon136]

See more serious comment...

[thepastrypixie]

I did.

[icedragon136]

I know women who hate phones.

[thepastrypixie]

I was generalizing you punk, I realize that generalizing is not PC but I've never really given a shit about PC'ness

[icedragon136]

And I was making a statement.