Guy's Guide to God, Girls, and the Phone in Your Pocket by Jonathan McKee
Author:Jonathan McKee [McKEE, JONATHAN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-63058-047-6
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2014-02-22T16:00:00+00:00
Don’t obsess about bad breath, but at the same time, pay respect to the people around you by taking care of your oral hygiene.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Your family, your friends … and the girl you like … will all appreciate it if you make an effort to have clean breath.
46.
TALK TO HER FACE-TO-FACE.
HEY GIRL, WHASSUP?
NOTHIN’ MUCH.
MISSIN’ YOU.
I MISS YOU.
I WANT TO SPEND MORE TIME WITH YOU.
ME, TOO.
I THINK I LOVE YOU.
WOW. THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN REALLY COOL … IF YOU WOULD HAVE SAID IT TO MY FACE.
Texting and messaging has become so common that people now have some of their deepest conversations via messaging.
WILL U MARRY ME?
Lame.
We’ve even seen some celebrities take the easy way out of a relationship, using a text message to do their dirty work:
I WANT A DIVORCE.
I’m not knocking digital communication. I use it all the time with my own kids, and I sometimes prefer it for quick reminders. But it’s sad when texting and other types of messaging begin to replace face-to-face communication to the extent that people become uncomfortable looking another person in the eye and talking.
I’ve noticed this trend in the last decade. Teenagers get in the same room with each other and they still retreat to their phones. I’ve seen two teenagers sitting on the same couch texting each other—not because it was fun, not because they didn’t want others to hear, but simply because it was easier. These two didn’t know how to talk face-to-face.
A real man knows how to talk to a woman face-to-face.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not down on technology, but I am willing to admit its shortfalls. Texting lacks nonverbal cues. In other words, you can’t see when a person is smiling or hear when he or she is sarcastic or angry. That’s why we’ve developed emoticons, to try to replace nonverbal cues. Like when we type: I HATE YOU. J
What the heck does that mean? Does she really hate me, and is trying to lessen the blow with that stupid smiley emoticon, or is she slightly passive-aggressive? Maybe it’s neither, and she’s totally kidding. But it’s hard to tell when someone isn’t right in front of you.
My seventeen-year-old daughter recently confessed, “I don’t do any serious communication on my phone anymore. It always leads to fights.” She shared an example of miscommunication in her conversations with a guy she liked. They were trying to have a deep conversation through texts. “It didn’t work,” she said. “I couldn’t tell when he was serious or when he was being sarcastic. Finally, I just told him, ‘Let’s just talk about this tomorrow face-to-face.’ ”
Not bad advice. Actually, it’s very wise advice.
The more teenagers I talk with about the subject, the more I hear the same thing: “It’s not smart to have deep conversations via text message.”
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