Modern Girls Egos Pumped By Texting

by sober down under

I recently attended a party where most of the girls and guys were a bit younger than I am. A typical teenage booze up in suburban New Zealand on a Thursday evening in summer. The BBQ was blazing, the boys were sinking beer and the girls were…TEXTING.

I have honestly never witnessed anything so tragic. To paint a picture, this was in the backyard at night and the glow of the cellphones was making the back wall of the house look like a blank projector screen.

Having a chat to one of these girls I was fascinated by her inability to concentrate or even finish a sentence. Her cellphone was vibrating literally every 10 seconds with either a FB update or SMS message. In our brief 15 minute chat she was responding nicely and even suggested going out the front for a joint.

But I just could not stomach any more communication with such a brainless, vapid collection of protoplasm. Texting and talking while maintaining eye contact is still fucking rude. For me it is a dealbreaker. I laughed her off and just walked away and rejoined my friends.

I wondered if anyone else would hit on her. Turns out that about an hour after we’d left no less than 3 guys she’d been texting turned up and had a scrap over her. No one won though because according to the house owner who I ran into the next day, she went home alone.

This is the new paradigm that guys are dealing with. We’ve started to see it in the lecture theatres, on campus, in bars, in cafes and in our social circles – the elevation of interaction via social networking and texting above all other forms of communication.

It isn’t something to be proud of. It’s actually quite sick. Addiction to an electronic device could easily form part of the next DSM-IV if psychiatrists really thought this through.

All that Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Texting, Viber and other ways of modern communication do is inject NOS into an already inflated ego of a teenage girl. It turns them from airhead into completely devoid of any substance and bitchy about it as well.

Making a phone call is impossible, playing games with text messages has reached breaking point, Facebook attention whoring is the new pastime and even making casual conversation without a view to a root is impossible.

They all think you are hitting on them! The arrogance! Just because you have a vagina and I am chatting to you doesn’t mean I actually want to drag you back to my man cave. Most of the time I’m just entertaining myself by taking the piss out of your stupidity.

Last night I went to another party and the host’s elder sister and I had a great chat about this stuff. Her admission that she had deleted her Facebook account 3 months ago fully led me to make an effort at bouncing her back to my place at a relatively early 11pm.

The girls who spend their time texting and FB chatting will have to settle for guys who have the time to put up with this shit. The rest of us will “block you out” of our target market. How ironic, attention whoring leading to ostracism from douchebags like myself.