Please convert text to speech

We don't need to be face-to-face for communication anymore. Email, SMS, Google chat, etc have made friends, family and businesses more accesible and communication very rapid. But in this connectivity we've lost important aspects of communication; emotion, tone, body language, response. I miss all of these..I'm a phone, meet-up person but I know that it's not really possible all of the time.

When chatting with someone, I say something, there's a weird sorta response or a cold response but it's basically just "text". I have no real idea what it means. All sorts of things go on in my head - have I offended? What do they mean? Was I misunderstood? Did she understand? Why would he say that? This isn't the situation when I'm actually talking to someone on the phone or meeting them in person. I can gauge what response my words have and I can ask outright if I'm confused.

Another 'downside' (or 'upside' to some) is the luxury of able to ignore or 'I didn't get it..' When the communication is electronic, we have the luxury to either ignore or just say that we never got the message. This happens more often than most of us would like.

I usually just pick up the phone and call. I can see how SMS, email is useful. We don't all have the time to talk when the phone rings, or meetup. Email gives us freedom, and sometimes it's just easier to write something out (after having thought about it) and express your feeling that way. I know that I'll frequently write up something long, either just because I don't want to say it out loud or I can articulate it better and with the right frame of mind or I just don't want the other person to be on spot.

But at the end...I love the phone. I will call my friends back home in India so I can talk to them. It's annoying and upsetting at times when they don't pick up or are too busy or whatever. But I'm a people's person, whatever the advantages of email, I will first pick up the phone.