The other day I had an ephiphany…. I know we live in a two word, 30 second sound bite culture and I hate it. In my past and now current lives I have written and talked for a living…and although I speak much like I write here [sort of simply] – I am not a sound bite thinker or writer…my mind wanders and I love intellectual give and take…<\/p>\n
I had IM set up on my computer but only used it for a few people – I just realized that it was leading me to try and say things too briefly due to its format and that I was not being clear about my feelings and was having trouble thinking about how to write in a limited space – my brain was trying to function in 30 second sound bite language…And the responses I got – due to the IM set up on a few machines was often a series of short sentences…sometimes a day or two or more after my IMs – so I’d forget what I had actually said unless I looked in the archive….and worse was the more typical response – an emoticon – or a YEAH! and then I’d have no idea to what it referred. And IMing in real time meant that I had to sit at my computer to communicate – not bad if it’s a rare thing but as the main way to communicate – not my thing…<\/p>\n
I decided that IMing was a cultural problem and part of the issue as to why we live in a sound bite culture – everyone IMs – so I notified my IM pals that I was removing IM from my computer at least for the summer and we could communicate by phone or email…<\/p>\n
Let’s see if we can change the complexity of discourse starting on a personal level…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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