i was poking around my phone today in class when i found the rather odd choices of text templates they included to help increase the rate of text message responses when stock phrases are necessary. apart from the more obvious ones ("i'll be late", "i'm busy", "call me"), one of the templates really surprised me: among the 10 other templates, one could choose append "i love you too" to any message being composed with 3 key presses.
the appropriate response might be to bemoan how impersonal technology have made things. how much has those 4 words been cheapened now that you can "say" them without even having to form them? that with a nokia phone, it comes down to simply knowing which buttons to press? that such emotion has been reduced to nothing more than a convenience.
who would use such a function? i can't imagine it would work for anyone who's truly in love. if you're truly in love, declaring it using a cellphone template would be entirely inadequate. it shouldn't even cross your mind. then it must be for those who are too distant from their lovers to put in any effort. to be so beyond caring that such an empty gesture is sufficient. perhaps you are out with your new lover and didn't want to appear tardy in replying to your messages, and the few seconds such a template would save would help throw the old lover off the scent? has the 4 words become more deception than truth that convenience dictates they be made available for situations where they are in fact entirely untrue, and worse, inappropriate?
but that's not my real response to that. right now, i wouldn't mind receiving those words, even knowing they could be from a template.
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