Voices Week as A Retweet

We are all masters of disguise and deception. We keep our faces tucked behind computer screens and further hide behind emoticons, brand names, slang words, lol's, stereotypes and other labels so we dont have to talk about how we're feeling. In such a technologically-charged and acceptance-happy era as this, true and sincere self-expression has become this elusive and fleeing trend that even the Jones’ cant’ keep up. We’re lucky, cause we have skills, knowledge, and past experiences handy to use to find out how to deal with emotional issues – Confrontation too difficult? Just post that Cee-lo f-u song on his wall. – Never learned how to flirt effectively? We have winking faces for that on our phones! And furthermore, as long as automatic spell check, urban dictionary.com, and wordreference.com are available, personally, I don’t have to worry about sounding stupid when I’m actually trying to sound wack. Hey, no need to get heated. Hopefully we all know how to form a complete and proper sentence – with punctuation marks. But have you ever been rewarded for speaking properly AND strategically? Probably not. We’ve learned a million ways to convey a giiven meaning or express some nameless elusive emotion as mentioned above, but few folks have learned ways to create, and then find meaning for 
themselves. This is where I

I say, let’s put down our droids, lol for real, and bring some of 

that . How about our voices, too – your phone still makes 

phone calls, right? Kids from this playground to the next are 

all being hushed up, their voices are as weak as a “retweet”, 

and the English language itself is thus being raped by 

improper usage and infrequent practice. As the youth’s 

brains-space is also being exposed to money and sex and 

drugs and violence and news and other raaacket from the 

idiot-box-screen-things for the first time in their lives, their 

toy-chests are lacking the greatest drugs and ammo to fight 

back