Texting

I was in Manhattan last Sunday and saw something I thought was funny. I’m outside Madison Square Garden sitting down waiting for a friend. Three girls walk by me, sit down and sit start texting. They don’t say a word to each other, they ignore each other. They act like they’re in their own little world with nothing going on outside. When they’re done texting, they get up and leave.

I see stuff like this all day in the city. Not just with kids, grownups also. People standing around in a circle texting. This goes on non-stop. They’re standing in a circle texting people not talking to anybody, then when they go out at night, the text the people they were standing around with. Then when they go to work the next day, they stand in a circle with the people they texted, not talking to them and text the person they went out with last night.

This is something like Facebook. You can post messages all day on your friends page, then when you see them later, you don’t talk about it.