Tunnel InVision

Cell phones are a form of communication. And unknowingly to some people, it is rude to communicate when someone else is trying to communicate to you. I almost get pissed off when I see someone in class blatantly texting their hearts out. I see it as such a form of disrespect. The teacher is giving their own personal time and devoted their life to, in a radical way, the listener. So why can't the student focus for 55 minutes without this one distraction? I do not understand.

In 1984 (I think it was this book... to be honest I never finished it) they had a concept of humans language becoming quicker and faster to use. The words were slurred together so that the laziness was able to overcome and they were not required to use any energy to convey their forms of communication. It saddens me to see that this insane prediction has become true, just in another form. Texting. No longer are we needed to converge ourselves in entire conversations that we are able to explore each other as we share our feelings and thoughts. Now we are able to suffice with a simple "k" or "c u later". It is a destruction of our language as we know it.

So I admit, texting might not ruin society... soon! but as I look at it right now, people are miss useing it in innapropiate places. At a party I was at, a girl took out her phone and started texting when my friend came up to her. My other bud said "ouch you got the phone taken out on you." Cellphones are merely a form of disrespect. I approve of texting in entire sentences and in solitude. If you are trying to speak to someone verbally, and they attempt to text someone else, it can obviously mean that they are not interested in what you are trying to speak to them about. I know how these teachers feel.

So yeah, I do feel that texting can be appropiate, but only in the correct place, time, and diction in order to avoid the downfall of a language. Maybe this is a rediculous claim, but there is no way to what could be appropiate in a possible future etopia. Maybe responding to a teacher with 3 letters could be the correct way to do it some day.