LMFTF.
If you do not know what that stands for, in today's internet linguistics, then you may be dating yourself. Or, put another way: if u do not know what that stands 4 in 2day's internet linguistics, then u may b dating urself.
"Let's meet face-to-face." LMFTF
I see the writing on the wall. We humans are less and less apt to have face-to-face, or even voice-to-voice communications than previous generations. To be fair about this, other than Morse Code, Western Union telegraphs, the Pony Express, the barefoot runners that were the precursors of the Olympic runners, or the U.S. Postal Service, options of alternative communications did not exist that many decades ago, except, perhaps, deep within ten-foot concrete U.S. military bunkers.
Today, if some people have interpersonal-relationship issues, they are more apt to "talk" via texting, tweeting, or emails rather than having an actual tete-a-tete or even a conversation "ala voce'" The relationships that I maintain with teens, twenty and thirty-somethings have taught me that more serious conversations and breakups take place through the "cloud" than ever before.
I'm practically a dinosaur-yet-not-quite and I do not understand how meaningful communication can occur without either seeing the eyes of the other or hearing the other's voice or, preferably, both. There is a 1990's rock ballad by the band "Extreme", "More Than Words", that says it all. Dialogue between people is so much "more than words". To truly ascertain another's meaning behind the words, either speech or facial expressions are needed for the real litmus test. Tweets, texts, and emails, however filled with caps and exclamatory punctuation, are not substitutes for interpersonal chats with look-into-my-eyes meanings. Of course, if the "other" person is a jerque or wacked-out and dangerous, then utilizing "the cloud" is the safest way to go. Otherwise, "man-up" and say what you have to say with the other person present.
What is next? A cell phone with a finger-port where you stick your index finger into a slot and the machine reads emotion, sentiment and passion that is then electronically conveyed to whomever you are talking with?
George Orwell didn't have a clue. Or, perhaps a bigger clue than we realize?
Ancora imparo
