It is not LOL, motherf*&%er!

If your online dating 'handle name' is Right4U or SxyMan69 with a headline: Ready, Willing and Able - don't expect an e-mail response from this lady. If you have misspelled more than five words and don't reference ANYTHING I've written in my profile but instead mention that you like my mouth and would I like to have a drink sometime....the answer is no and it'll be said out loud to my computer screen and not sent because I can't even be bothered with typing a response. Oh - and if you write LOL at all in your e-mail to me, it'll be delete city, buddy. I had someone send an e-mail recently with a minimum (i kid you not) of 4 LOLs. Unforgivable.

Like everything in the virtual world - blogs, texts, boards, even e-mail messages to colleagues, people are much more brave, opinionated and larger than life. Communicating in this way has become preferable for more and more people. I now know some people who don't even use their cell phones to talk to human beings anymore - it is solely used for text message communication. This is irritating for someone like me who is not so nimble with their fingers (when it comes to those freakin tiny buttons, that is) and about a zillion minutes that keep rolling over from Cingular (damned cell phone screw jobs.) I also pay a fee each time I receive or send a text message because I've figured (in the past) that I would just pick up the horn when I'm running late rather than send a text: b there in 10 min, k? Bad idea. I was already getting a fair amount of texts before dating online but now I am totally forced to change my already effed up cell plan. It's amazing how 10 cents adds up....when you are having full on CONVERSATIONS over texts. Jesus. Unbelievable - how we've distanced ourselves from one another.