Instant Messenger - lowering our ability to communicate and spell

G2G. LOL. BRB. These are common things said on IM, and to me, seem to be a sign not of our race increasing, but decreasing at a rampant rate every time we 'talk.'

After just a few times of communicating on this device, I was able to understand what these meant. After 2 years of getting on many times a week, I still have problems figuring out what NP and YW mean.

The problem with communicating through the internet is that we seem to never actually be in the company of other human beings. I wonder how through the history of the world - 6000 years (according to some religious beliefs) - people were always able to communicate with each other in person, but now, for the past 6 or so years, we spend most of our time in front of a computer screen. We rely on email for letters from friends and family and instant messenger to talk with as many friends as we can at a time.

That is another thing. Why do people need to have 8 conversations going on at one time? One is plenty in real life, but we all insist on talking to all of our friends that are online. Are we really talking? All I see is, "Hi. Hi! How are you? How was your day? ok. Just ok? yeah. Why?" etc. etc.
The majority of conversations online is silly things like this and they never seem to go deeper. The conversation is ignored minutes at a time partly because they have to type "Guess what I did today?" to seven other people.

Usually when people talk face to face, the conversation is so much more fun to listen to. Talking is so must faster than typing, and you can have more than one person listening. There is emotion and facial expressions, which make that way of communicating so much more fun. Where are the emotions online may I ask? Oh, my bad, emoticons. A little face: :D :( :S ^_^ Wow. I bet the man upstairs is pleased to see our race expanding our horizons.

I conclude this fearing that I will go on way too much longer if I continue. G2G! TTYL! :D