Stressing Over Double Texts

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In the United States, 237.72 million people use a cell phone. 13% of cell owners pretended to be using their phone in order to avoid interacting with the people around them. 42% have had trouble doing something because they did not have their phone nearby. (Statistics from Pew Research Center.) We don’t think of electronics much. They’re just kinda… there. We wake up to them and fall asleep to them. We eat lunch with them and go to class with them. Most of us spend more time on our phone them we do with people. Most of us have forgotten how to communicate without a phone. We scroll through Instagram while having a conversation. We text during family meals. ‘Hanging out with friends’ means sitting there on your phone with a movie in the background. We have drama on them. It is so much easier to say something to a screen than to a human. You can’t see the person’s face when they see the message. You can’t say exactly what you mean because there is no tone. You can tell people what you want to say so much easier. But what no one realizes is, that’s not a good thing. …show more content…

Stressing over double texts is the norm. Going to class without one is insanity. Sending a blunt text isn’t over thought. It's just sent. I’ve been on all four sides of this, and in all honesty, i think we all have, intentionally or not. Sending good, receiving good, sending out of context or blunt texts, and getting them back. It’s stressful. It's ironic how a tiny belonging can put so much pain in someone’s life. In case you haven’t noticed this isn’t about me. Its being on the receiving end of someone who has stayed up all night waiting for a text back, ranting on and on about something that seems trivial; but to them, it isn’t. When you take a step back and realize that one text caused them a world of pain, and think that this all would have been avoided if that one statement- that never would have been said face to face- would have never been

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