When new accquaintances find out that I do not use the online chat platform, MSN Messenger, they are always surprised. "Why?", they would ask. Afterall, almost everyone our age are using it to communicate and interact with people.
While I agree with them that the availability of such chatting devices has made communication much easier and faster, I still dislike using them because I feel that it is impersonal. I much prefer to meet up with my friends and talk to them face-to-face, so I can see their faces light up as they tell me excitedly about their new crush or observe their sympathtic nod to my complaints of a bad week.
Because I don't chat online, when I do come across acronymns while surfing the Internet, I am always left puzzled and have to google for the exact meaning of the few random letters grouped together. Some of the slang I came across which I found perplexing includes DEGT (Don't Even Go There), TAFN (That's All For Now), IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) and the last which applies to me, PCMCIA (People Can't Master Computer Industry Acronyms). I am truly amazed by people's abilities to shrink their words.
But I guess acronyms and slang are necessary when you want to type fast and chat rapidly. Still, I am never going to understand all of them as I am not regularly exposed to them like my peers are.
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Good to know that among young people, there are still those like you who don't like to spend too much time on techno stuff. You're in good company.
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