LOL

Sling it!

 

Our digital conversations have certainly evolved over the years. They started with sequences of (1)’s and (0)’s. Turned into the language we prefer to communicate in. And now we have elevated those same conversations with the ability to add expressions, abbreviations, and emoji’s to get our point across. Have they added any real value to what we are trying to say and are we saying anything at all?

 

This has been the direction conversations have shifted towards. It started with the movement of adults wanting to relive a part of their past and they began talking hood with their friends so they could show time hasn’t changed their middle school essence. This led to more people speaking hood and we began losing the art to effectively communicate with each other. That allowed a rift to grow and educated people started sounding more and more like individuals who had no desire or need to educate themselves like the teenage internet stars, sex tape to fame stars, and the music industry overnight success stars who have never worked a real job a day in their life. So we were introduced to words like “bae”, “KK”, “bye felicia”, “shade”, and “turnt” to name a few. We knowingly dumbed ourselves down.

 

It didn’t stop there. We were overtaken by the internet storm when we were first exposed to the abbreviation of “LOL”. We all laughed out loud at that one and we used it until we killed it. It no longer has any real meaning except to make the person on the receiving end of the conversation feel better about themselves or lessen any awkwardness. That grew into the use of more abbreviations like “LMBO”, “K”, and “YOLO” which eventually turned into emoji’s. Now we can have complete conversations without the use of any physical words. That just makes me want to go out some days, club a woman over the head, and drag her back to my place and say “Me want sammich”. Then carve my daily outings on a wall so others can carve a “like” sign next to it. There used to only be 2 kinds of international language.

Now we have 3: Math, Love, & Emoticons.

 

Bring it!

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