QotD: That's So Cliché

Which, ahem, "internets" clichés do you wish would go away already?

Just one. The cliché that Internet communication is "just words."

Anyone who persists in saying that has got their head up their... in the sand.

These mere words are becoming ever more the way people with access to the technology communicate.

Not just on the traditional Internet--texting among an ever-larger segment of the public has taken the place of spoken communication and it's highly unlikely IMO, that we will revert back to the old school talking on the phone. Why? For one, we are enamoured of multitasking. So for example, I can be in a meeting or in a class and be "working" yet at the same time texting whomever. That's not Internet communication per se but Internet communication has helped fuel it and reinforces it by just what I'm doing this moment. I'm not speaking with "you" I'm sitting on this Internet platform called TypePad and I'm typing words. They may not be of grave importance but neither is 99% of what we say.

So if I hear (read) one more time that the Internet is "just words," I shall scream (use ALL CAPS).