When it comes to living in a to­day’s society where we have tech­nology like text messaging, I’m starting to wonder if we are start­ing to lose our skill of compre­hending and understanding each other.

Especially when it comes to reading basic body language and making sense of what others tell us on a day-to-day basis.

Body language has become one of the biggest issues I’ve noticed. For example, when it comes to someone we like and potential­ly want to date, if we like that per­son, there will be certain signals the person will give off via their bodies.

Seeing this, we would take no­tice, and that would be our cue to strike a conversation, but lately it’s different.

It seems that it’s become hard­er for people, including my­self, to differentiate between the signs of someone being interest­ed and someone just wanting to be friends.

For example, we’ll go through the process of having a crush on someone, joking with them, flirt­ing slightly, and it seems like all the signs are there, but then we find out that they just want to be friends.

Or we find out they were just joking around, making it feel like it was all for nothing.

It makes me ask the questions: Did we read body language wrong or do we just see what we want to see or because of technology have we forgotten how to tell the differ­ence?