please stop texting me!!!

it seems that in this new age of technology, where you know what your friends & enemies are doing based on their away message (i.e. "Tom is outside riding his bike") or what Twitter (i still don't know what that is!?!) says about them, something has to give. unfortunately, something has--namely traditional, person-to-person conversation. long gone are the days when we are walking in the neighborhood and we see our neighbor. we wave and he/she invites us over for a cool class of ice tea and homemade cookies, and we talk about everything from school to work to love. no, instead, we whip out our cell phone with its shiny case & its many "hidden" features and communicate with another human by punching at little buttons (which strain our eyes) on the smallest keypads known to mankind. (if you really think about this, it seems utterly ridiculous). what's even more ridiculous is that we wait impatiently for the next text to vibrate or beep or play a little tune for us. because we clearly need these digital to be sent to us in order for us to know that 1) we have friends, 2) what our friends are doing, and 3) this is the best means of communication. unbelievable, how it has come to this. (oh, by the way, i text/email/gchat too! so you can't call me out on being a hypocrite. i'm just contributing to easiest form of satire around these days!)