Chatting. Facebook chatting, google plus, email chatting, MSN, Hotmail- online chatting. Everyday, when students, siblings, family members are in school or at work or at a cafe, one of the most common body practices that the majority of the current population does is chatting. A form of communication when phone reception is not available, when one is in the classroom and the phone can't be used or when you just don't want to talk to someone and chatting would be the most convenient form of communicating. I do it everyday, in class, at work, at home when I can't use my phone or verbally talk with someone. Everyone does it, and when you can just pick up the phone and talk to that person, you chat instead because it's just "convenient." I admit to being a subject to this daily form of communication, however I only resort to it when I have no other means of communication. I find it quite mind boggling and annoying when others chat with me just because they're bored and sends me a one worded "hi" message or they're too afraid to verbally, physically confront me with their problems. I think this is turning into a too often "lazy" form of body practice and is turning us into docile bodies that take communication for granted and we don't utilize the traditional forms of communication, as we once did before. We get so caught up into the rhythm of online messaging/chatting and we forget that we have actual mouths to use. Not that online chatting is bad, but it's bad when it becomes a consistent means of communicating when you can just simply pick up the phone and call someone.
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