Maybe we've all been herded into texting for a reason.
So, who did the herding?
& how, exactly, were people "herded" into texting?
& when you say "we" pard, speak for yourself. I don't, nor will I ever, own a cell phone. Personally I find people & their cell phone addictions to be so utterly annoying that I'd send them to Gitmo just for owning one.
Of course, like propaganda disseminating TVs with on/off switches, cell phone spying is amazingly easy to escape.
Yet few ever take that route.
Maybe if we weren't such narcissistic yet massively insecure douche bags with our pathological & utterly creepy need for constant affirmation, no matter how shallow that affirmation is, we wouldn't feel the need for "constant connection."
I can't even imagine the amount of banal human spewed bullshit that the government has to wend it's way through before it finds anything even remotely useful. (Come to think of it, it's probably a lot like reading this forum...)
On the other hand, all the paranoiacs, with their hermetically sealed forums that read more like giant intellectual circle jerk parties (y'know, like this one), would probably give their right nuts to have da government kick in their doors. That way they'd have real proof that their long hours spent typing "troof to powa" screeds on the Internut really was more than mental masturbation with a keyboard.
Although, if one takes the idea that the government waits, raptor-like, to pounce on every stunted adolescent rebel with an anti-government scree to spout to its logical conclusion, that must mean that this forum, and dozens like it, have never been within a bowling balls toss of "DA TROOF" since they seem to prattle on & on & on for years without the barest whiff of government interference or persecution.
Or are you all just too shy to relate your many all-expense-paid trips tp Gitmo?
Oh wait, I know...paranoid Internut addicts have built up such a back log of "courage" with their Internut addictions that the government is just too afraid to move on them.
After all, the courageous forum typists just might force those pesky government intruders to endure endless marathons of cute kitty videos, thereby nullifying all of that "Big Brother" nastiness.
Scary stuff indeed....