Why assume she has been ‘left’? Couldn’t she just be thinking that texting her partner to find out about the day is not as enjoyable as hearing it described by the person face to face? And if she is alone, why assume she was the initiator?
Personally, I find what are called social media really aren’t social in the best sense of the word, i.e., being face to face with friends and hearing them tell the details of events in their lives. Such conversations are far more interesting when the person, the details, and the emotional content are present.
In my opinion, email, twitter, facebook, etc, are simply misnamed as conversational media because the emotions that would be a major part of of one’s description of events are limited to specific graphic language cues, which usually were devised for just this purpose. The addressee’s excited response also is limited to the best choices in this emotional sign language.
(Naturally, this description could not apply where the distance between is too great, but much social media contact appears to take place when users are only a few minutes apart.)
Is it any wonder users keep devising ever greater choices of symbols to express ‘social’ emotions? Obviously, there is no adequate substitute for actual face to face contact and there is little likelihood that there will be.
All due respect but she is commenting on the fact she hears about how his day is going every 42 minutes all day long. Nothing left to talk about at end of day.
Actually, I’ve never followed Twitter because I am not a twit (or in the case of the American President, a (Great Bloody Twit), and, once the managers of “Facebook” demonstrated to me that they actively and knowingly colluded with the Russian government to influence our 2016 Presidential election, I disengaged myself from ANY association with their illegal and potentially treasonous activities! So now I am no longer ‘awash’ with descriptions of the minutiae of people’s everyday lives – and it is altogether refreshing, I must say!
I can “live” without knowing what my next-door neighbor’s sister’s husband’s Uncle’s son-in-law grilled for dinner last Tuesday, thank-you-very-much!
Farside99 over 6 years ago
Well, you shouldn’t have been so miserable to get along with that you drove him away.
sandpiper over 6 years ago
Why assume she has been ‘left’? Couldn’t she just be thinking that texting her partner to find out about the day is not as enjoyable as hearing it described by the person face to face? And if she is alone, why assume she was the initiator?
Personally, I find what are called social media really aren’t social in the best sense of the word, i.e., being face to face with friends and hearing them tell the details of events in their lives. Such conversations are far more interesting when the person, the details, and the emotional content are present.
In my opinion, email, twitter, facebook, etc, are simply misnamed as conversational media because the emotions that would be a major part of of one’s description of events are limited to specific graphic language cues, which usually were devised for just this purpose. The addressee’s excited response also is limited to the best choices in this emotional sign language.
(Naturally, this description could not apply where the distance between is too great, but much social media contact appears to take place when users are only a few minutes apart.)Is it any wonder users keep devising ever greater choices of symbols to express ‘social’ emotions? Obviously, there is no adequate substitute for actual face to face contact and there is little likelihood that there will be.
Zen-of-Zinfandel over 6 years ago
Waiting and wondering while the tater tot hotdish is baking in the oven.
formathe over 6 years ago
All due respect but she is commenting on the fact she hears about how his day is going every 42 minutes all day long. Nothing left to talk about at end of day.
wellis1947 Premium Member over 6 years ago
Actually, I’ve never followed Twitter because I am not a twit (or in the case of the American President, a (Great Bloody Twit), and, once the managers of “Facebook” demonstrated to me that they actively and knowingly colluded with the Russian government to influence our 2016 Presidential election, I disengaged myself from ANY association with their illegal and potentially treasonous activities! So now I am no longer ‘awash’ with descriptions of the minutiae of people’s everyday lives – and it is altogether refreshing, I must say!
I can “live” without knowing what my next-door neighbor’s sister’s husband’s Uncle’s son-in-law grilled for dinner last Tuesday, thank-you-very-much!