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Sometimes  I feel like the world is losing the ability to communicate.... We get together and break up with people through a text because we are too nervous to actually speak to that person in real life. We text each other while we are int the same room. one word texts have become my major pet peeve. AND NO ONE ACTUALLY PICKS UP THEIR PHONE ANYMORE! Did you realize that calling was the original reason for a phone in general? And before that we had letters and telegrams?! And before that, people actually had to go speak to each other in person to get a fast response?! Kids of our generation hide behind their keyboards in an attempt to save themselves the embarrassment of talking to someone in person and possibly being hurt. Or to protect themselves from the possibility of seeing a human being with actually emotions respond to some of their blatantly mean and hurtful words. People say things over a text that they would never say in person, or even in a call for that matter! For example, "sexting." NO ONE WOULD EVER SAY THOSE NASTY THINGS IN PERSON!!! The other person would think that you were a pervert and be all "EW?! GET AWAY!!" We hide behind our digital walls so as to not have to face reality. In reality, you ARE still speaking to a living, breathing human being. And a lot of us would be ashamed of some of the things we say behind our computer or smart phones if we said them in real life.  With good and practical reason too!  Our hiding has even effected our English language! People have a new way of speaking in shortened English in an attempt to shorten the words we say and our conversations.  I cringe sometimes when I hear the way some people speak in a way that makes it hard for some of us to even understand them! We shall see I suppose how people speak in the future. Will they speak to each other like in Wall-e? In the comfort of their comfy chair through a televised screen? That idea of people and the future scares me in the fact that it will completely change the way we respond to each other.  God made us to be relational creatures, and we are abusing and wasting this amazing gift that he has given us!