Are we living in a Text (SMS) Generation? Where it's no longer necessary for someone to be polite and respective enough to meet someone face-to-face to break up? Or ring to cancel a date? A text message is sufficient?
I was party to a conversation recently, one of the girls in the group mentioned she was cancelled a date the previous night by text. I asked, if that was socially acceptable? She claimed it was for her generation (she's 24), when I asked how old her date was, she advised 42; I gave her food for thought that maybe he didn't quite think it was acceptable.
Generation Y have been born into a digital age, never knowing life without mobile phones and the internet but our era Generation X (born between late '60s and late '70s) knew the meaning of politeness and timekeeping. Arrangements for Clery's clock at six, had to be kept, there was no means of contacting to say you were not coming or running late.
Has manners gone out the window? Or is texting an easy cop out? Is Generation X picking up bad habits from our younger counterparts Generation Y?
Food for thought!
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