Growing up in the decade of the 2010’s, I never thought I’d see the day when people stopped texting until their fingers fell off. It was all the rage, thought to last in society for as long as there were phones. Now, it’s the newest trend to disregard or ignore text messages. Before, we weren’t waiting longer than five minutes for a response. Today, we’ll be lucky if we only have to wait a week.
Texting was such a convenient and efficient way to communicate. Need to ask your mom how long to put dinner in the oven? Send a text. Need to confirm that your assignment is due tomorrow at midnight and not in two hours? Send a text. Being part of a world where everyone is constantly pushing us around and trying to accomplish things quickly, texting was an easy way to get things done.
Unfortunately, I can no longer trust texting as a reliable form of communication. Being busy or distracted is the default reason for unanswered messages, but we all experience that. If we have time to like an Instagram post, we have time to message someone back. The least we can do while we live in the generation of technology, and where time and speediness is valued, is to have the courtesy to just answer the text.
Veronica is a Staff Writer at The Cascade. She loves to travel and explore new places, no matter how big or small. She is in her second year at UFV, pursuing the study of Creative
Writing.
