Talk about Txting
The census numbers are in. The results are staggering and disturbing. People are... sending text messages.
It is always entertaining to watch a behavior such as text messaging develop over years, firmly embed itself in culture then all the sudden bust into the media. Recently, we've had a one-two punch of no-texting-while-driving legislation and census figures. Pundits have gone mad with opinion and analysis.
As with most new trends, the general feel that's being cultivated around the media's latest insight into humanity is one of apprehension and fear. I understand where this protectionist mindset comes from, because I feel it to. But I think it's rather dumb because it doesn't comprehend that this is a new form of communication that is evolving as people use it. It hasn't played itself out yet.
I, for one, am more excited to see a decade down the road what we're going to be doing with texting and other new forms of communication than I am afraid of what it is doing to us.