Our new era of communication often goes misused by the generation that just missed the cut-off.

Brett Favre is a prime example of those awkward 38-year-olds trying out the whole Blacktooth Blueberry terminology.

It’s sometimes downright comical when the two eras intertwine, like if Favre were to, oh let’s say, send a text message to the Green Bay Packers amidst a highly sensitive subject of whether to return to the NFL from retirement or not.

Now this comes from someone who has been dumped by a girlfriend through a text message: don’t send valuable information through your cell phone keypad. It downright diminishes the value of whatever was talked about, whether that be a relationship, in my case, or free agency status, in Favre’s case.

According to a report on ESPN.com, Favre texted the Packers, saying, “‘it’s all rumor’ and that there was ‘no reason’ for a media frenzy.”

So… apparently… that’s not worthy of a courtesy phone call.

Point being, reserve the Short Message Service — the formal name of text messaging, or texting — for just that: short, meaningless messages.