Boundless Line: IMing

IMing
by Motte Brown on 10/25/2006 at 2:51 PM

A recent AP article reports that 65 percent of 18-29 year-old Americans who own cell phones text message on a regular basis. They are g2g and lol and 2g2bt. And in case you're an IM neophyte like me those mean "good to go," "laughing out loud" and "too good to be true."

I don't know why, but I haven't been able to get into all the new gadgets (I can't even find my iPod). Maybe it's because I'm mw2sk ("married with two small kids") or dht ("don't have time"). Actually, I think it's my l2ba ("love to be alone").

In her article Against the Cell, Lauren Winner laments how some technology makes it harder to be "tranquil or still." She writes, "... I am struck by the sad thought that we are no longer ever alone. We have eroded all the space we once had for solitude."

My real fear is that if I add one more distraction to an already busy life, it will prove to be the very thing that puts twGotbb ("time with God on the back burner").

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