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SMS sucks

I don't like SMS.

The main reason is that in a high technological world of today, pushing little buttons 2 or 3 times to get one letter on your screen is utterly annoying.
I mean, we have a technology that connects you wirelessly to another person, you can speak to each other without wires, pass on your own voice, then why act like in the twenties of last century?

Two days ago I was sitting on a bus, and there was this girl, she was typing messages while looking to the people. Her thumb was pushing like crazy and she was not even blinking to the little screen to see if she made mistakes.
'Dactylo' on mobiles.
I was watching with disbelief.
I heard that in Japan, there is a contest for the fastest SMS'er.
Imagine, all these little Japanese girls, pushing like crazy, to be the first. The one and only, the fastest. What an achievement...

Morse on a mobile. A 'contradictio in terminis'.
Combination of the future and the past.

What bothers me most about it, is the lack of emotion. I mean the lack of that possibility.
I often have the feeling that such a small message can be read in different ways.
I am sure that quite some times I misinterpret the message, giving the wrong 'emotion' to it, and thus missing the whole point.

I sometimes have the same feeling about email.
I love it. I really do.
But it is mostly a thing that is for practical use. Not for passing on emotions.

It is funny to see how these days, with all this technology, we get away from the basic but true communication: talking.
From one to one.

And I know, one will say that I am not good at it. It is true :)
Yet I believe that it is purer communication than what is happening now:
kids that use msn, people that leave (more and more bitching) comments on blogs, or short coded sms'ses leaving us doubtful.

I guess it is called evolution.
And I guess we all have to learn those new languages.
Not sure if I always like it though.

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