Hello Is There Anybody There?

The gentle art of conversation is dead and gone. We used to talk. We all used to talk. We used to have conversations about everything. We used to give each other advise about relationships, clothes, parents, jobs, haircuts, just about anything you could mention. We used to meet face to face. We would telephone each other and chat for hours. That was then. These are memories I've dredged up from the past. Now, today, we send emails and text. We communicate with a language of short, snappy phrases and abbreviations. In our hurry its not just the words that we abbreviate. We've cut short our conversations. Lost are the messages communicated through body language and tone of voice. We've lost the ability to look each other in the eye and deliver a message and recieve a message that is much more than mere words. We hide behind usernames and anonymous comments. We disguise what we really think behind cynical comments designed to be uber cool. An honest conversation, now thats a scarey concept.