Your thoughts on texting.
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The people I text I text for free. Plus most of my friends hate talking on the telephone anyways, so it cuts out any greetings, interruptions, awkward silences, loud background noises, etc. PLUS, we all work very different hours and texting is just more practical as it takes less than a minute to read or send a text. I always thought of it as mini-emails.
Wasn't it just a little while ago that everyone was complaining about people loudly talking on their cell phones? Now they've fixed that problem so people are silently, privately texting and there's a problem with that?
And places like Myspace are nice when your friends from high school/college move out and on and you'd like to keep up with them and how they're doing.
You obviously don't like texting and don't like websites such as Twitter and Myspace, etc. which I can understand. But really, don't let it get to you so much. I do find it oddly amusing that the pressure on you to text/etc. sounds like the old eighties/nineties sitcoms where some cliche guy came on and tried to pressure kids into drugs (C'mon, man, tweet with me, it'll make you feel GOOOOOD. All the cool kids are doin' it...)
Wasn't it just a little while ago that everyone was complaining about people loudly talking on their cell phones? Now they've fixed that problem so people are silently, privately texting and there's a problem with that?
And places like Myspace are nice when your friends from high school/college move out and on and you'd like to keep up with them and how they're doing.
You obviously don't like texting and don't like websites such as Twitter and Myspace, etc. which I can understand. But really, don't let it get to you so much. I do find it oddly amusing that the pressure on you to text/etc. sounds like the old eighties/nineties sitcoms where some cliche guy came on and tried to pressure kids into drugs (C'mon, man, tweet with me, it'll make you feel GOOOOOD. All the cool kids are doin' it...)
Well if you have a phone with a keyboard, like I do, than texting is alot more handy then calling and getting wrapped up in a conversation. Also, its much more personal than a phone call on a subway train or a bus. I don't need people to hear what I'm saying, so I just have a conversation by text. I don't see why you would "hate" something because you don't find a purpose for it.
Stop being so adamant about hating it and just accept it.
And last but not least...don't use walls of text. They hurt my eyes, and I just got the basics of your argument out of it before I further injured my eyes.
Edit: One last thing again, I've rarely run into people who text me "liek dis n dey talk s0 iT lookz kewl". If you think people really text like that, you need to actually well, text.
Stop being so adamant about hating it and just accept it.
And last but not least...don't use walls of text. They hurt my eyes, and I just got the basics of your argument out of it before I further injured my eyes.
Edit: One last thing again, I've rarely run into people who text me "liek dis n dey talk s0 iT lookz kewl". If you think people really text like that, you need to actually well, text.
My opinion could be approximately summarized by this clip from the Boondocks (offensive language, you've been warned):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBflm_S61Wg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBflm_S61Wg
I generally don't like texting. I don't fault people for doing it or anything, but for me it costs the same amount to make a call as it does to send a text (in that I pay my fee every month for unlimited everything), and I am speak far more effeciently than I can type on a phone.
I reserve texting for replies to texts that I receive, or incredibly short messages that does not warrent a call (such as, when I text a friend across the country to see if he wants to play, say Call of Duty 5 later, I just send him a text with "COD?" in it).
I might do it more frequently if I had a different model phone with a full keyboard, because this would alleviate most of my issues with the medium.
I reserve texting for replies to texts that I receive, or incredibly short messages that does not warrent a call (such as, when I text a friend across the country to see if he wants to play, say Call of Duty 5 later, I just send him a text with "COD?" in it).
I might do it more frequently if I had a different model phone with a full keyboard, because this would alleviate most of my issues with the medium.
to be honest, lots of good arguments so far... so I'd like to point some things out:
1. I really don't like texts, even though there are actually some good arguments for them.
2. we are all technically communicating via text message on this website, so you Kind of contradicted your own argument.
3. the problem with people using phones to text in school is that one of the first inclinations is always to cheat with them.
4. the only time I ever used text messaging was when my brother forgot his voicemail password and it was the only way to leave him messages.
5. I once had a teacher who supected one of the students of using a cellphone in class, he caught the student (don't know how except that the kid was using his phone when he got busted) and then proceeded to dump it into a pot of pig organs that we were boiling to clean off before dissection. no one ever used a phone in that class again.
1. I really don't like texts, even though there are actually some good arguments for them.
2. we are all technically communicating via text message on this website, so you Kind of contradicted your own argument.
3. the problem with people using phones to text in school is that one of the first inclinations is always to cheat with them.
4. the only time I ever used text messaging was when my brother forgot his voicemail password and it was the only way to leave him messages.
5. I once had a teacher who supected one of the students of using a cellphone in class, he caught the student (don't know how except that the kid was using his phone when he got busted) and then proceeded to dump it into a pot of pig organs that we were boiling to clean off before dissection. no one ever used a phone in that class again.
I have to say I agree with much of what the OP said. I don't see the sense in taking 2 minutes to text a message to someone when you could call them and tell them in 2 seconds. I really don't have a problem with it, except if you get irritated seeing people talking on their phone while driving, I know people who will text while driving. Yikes! I wish my friends would call me instead of text me because it costs me around 10 cents a message when they could call me in all likelyhood for free. Most of the time it is a lewd picture too, and that bugs me.
With that said, it can be helpful if your in a situation where you can't talk or need to be silent, but the flip side of which is chances are it is a place where texting would be just as disruptive.
With that said, it can be helpful if your in a situation where you can't talk or need to be silent, but the flip side of which is chances are it is a place where texting would be just as disruptive.
I'm part of the media, and it's practically the lifeblood of the news industry. It's faster and easier than phone calls, the best way to spread information quickly.
You sir, are a man of the same heart as me. I think that talking to someone over the phone is just odd. I much prefer either face to face communication or textual communication. Twitter is fairly useless in my opinion, even though I use it on and off.wewontdie11 said: