"Where is the ring?"

SMS can be misleading, you know it, you experience it, you may be unaware of it.

Very often, our immediate reaction to the message received is influenced by the addition of punctuation marks( !!!!, ......, ????), emoticons (:p, :), -.-'''), length and tone of message. From there, we get the extra touch of it.
The downside is that they add to the ambiguity of the meaning of the message and allow misinterpretations to take place btw you and the sender/recipient.

When people din't reply your message, you wonder whether they got receive, just being busy, purposely don't want to reply, something happened, thinking abt how to reply or simply don't bother.

I don't know whether to consider the phenomenon of ppl using SMS to communicate to be a curse or a blessing.

We have grown so accustomed to using SMS as the dominant way of communicating nowadays, so much so that the phone at home seems much quieter than before the advent of mobile phones, isnt it?

Many years back when mobile phones isn't such a mainstream trend yet, we are 'forced' to literally use the phone to call up our fellow pals to arrange meetings or to ask about stuff. Now that every individual is attached to a mobile phone, we have allowed ourselves to grow so accustomed to choosing the alternative way of SMS to communicate. Plus the fact that nowadays ppl are always on the move, it's harder to contact them directly at home or even outside. Moreover, knowing that handphone calls are much more expensive, people usually save cost by SMSing.

Street survey revealed that most ppl prefer SMSing than calling bcos it allows them to multi-task and also to craft their msg to their receipients.

Despite a part of me being cynical abt the genuinity and effectiveness of SMS, I am also one of the majority who use SMS frequently to pass information.

For one thing, if I am outside, I dislike talking on handphones for long bcos the radioactive gadget gets heated up easily and I get headache after using it for long. The thought that many brain cells are being killed in the process fears me quite abit. (This is perhaps the reason why Mr Lau, my ex- physics teacher resists from using handphones)

For another, some passing comments/remarks/statements realli do seem more appropriate in SMSes. To especially call just to say that seems like making an issue out of a molehill. Then there are stuff which is best said thru such indirect approach.

It's amazing how our mode of communication changes just like that with the advances made in technology - from pressing our friends' house numbers which used to be at our fingertips to thumbing in short messages to and fro. ha....is this good or bad? I wonder...