Do you text?

[VintagePunk]

I've had a very mentally taxing two days being all computer-techy, and if it weren't for that, I'd figure out the tags to repeat it again. Like holding a mirror to a mirror.

 

[VintagePunk]

Although, I'm not a high powered VP, so there's that.

I am.

 

[No spoken words]

I am.

I am too, but not in the way you are, which is a more pure way.

High powered VP

 

[phillyfan26]

By boring meetings I mean going into school at 7AM to choose what kind of photo album covers we're giving our classmates after junior prom.

I wish I was making that up.

So, yeah, in that case, texting.

 

[VintagePunk]

Again, if my brain weren't essentially mush right now, I'd google the highest, purest power source ever, and say that that's what I am. I guess you'll just have to use your imagination.

 

[No spoken words]

Again, if my brain weren't essentially mush right now, I'd google the highest, purest power source ever, and say that that's what I am. I guess you'll just have to use your imagination.

Chris Carter's abdominal muscles are the highest, purest power source ever.

 

[Lila64]

not Phelps?

I text occasionally, but try not to since I have to pay per text. No text plan here. I spend my money on that for Maddy

 

[VintagePunk]

Chris Carter's abdominal muscles are the highest, purest power source ever.

 

[No spoken words]

not Phelps?

I text occasionally, but try not to since I have to pay per text. No text plan here. I spend my money on that for Maddy

Phleps has swimmers abs, so, saying "Phelps" would sort of kill the inside joke.

Save your $$$ for U2-related stuff, Lila, not texting!

 

[No spoken words]

It's true, VP.

Ask Danimal, the Pimp.

 

[Lila64]

Phleps has swimmers abs, so, saying "Phelps" would sort of kill the inside joke.

Save your $$$ for U2-related stuff, Lila, not texting!

I phail

And yes, I'll save my $5 a month on the calling plan. By the end of the year, I may have saved enough money to buy a tour program for the next tour

 

[anitram]

I can't figure out how to make a capital letter other than the automatic one that starts after you type a period, though. That bugs me.

On my Motorola, you just press 0 to switch to capital letters.

 

[corianderstem]

I have a Motorola as well, but I guess I'm too lazy to have tried to research this capital letters issue. I'll have to try that out.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

all the time. i have a blackberry pearl so it has a qwerty keyboard, but some of the keys are together. it took a little bit of getting used to since i was used to 1 being a, b, and c. now 1 is e and r.

it's funny when you have the keys laid out all differently and people say to call something like 1-800-discover and now i'm like can you give me the numbers please? cuz on my phone that would translate to 1-800-43?-7 711 (yep a ? and a space would be in there) where i work our 800 # is like that too and i had a guy (not in a mean way) say the same thing and i was like yeah, i know how you feel. pretty soon with everyone having blackberries and other qwerty-type phones and voip phones (i guess those aren't like traditional phones) they might have to get away from replacing numbers with letters.

anyway, yeah i text a lot. i don't have a bill around, but i can't remember. i can't remember if it's like 2500 sent and received each, or 2500 total.

 

[vaz02]

I hate it with a passion for fashion.

 

[bonocomet]

I had managed to totally avoid texting, up until last week...

but I'm learning fast

 

[JanuaryStar]

Yes I do text, sometimes more than other times. But I usually type out the words completely, because I don't like to send 'code-language' messages (I'm a dork, I know). Usually it's to friends or fellow-students, but hey I even text my boss so that's pretty cool

 

[The Sad Punk]

I do, and I hate it.

I'm perfectly competent at it and I've been doing it for years and I do it often, but I still don't like it.

 

[Vincent Vega]

I do it because it's cheaper than calling, and I don't know whether the person is available to talk. So a text message will just wait to be read and the person can answer whenever there is time.
Also, I hate it to sit in the bus or train and telling people, "I'm sitting in the train and will be at Alexanderplatz in five minutes." I prefer getting asked by text so I can text it back quietly.
I also use SMS' for short conversations, when it fits into one SMS and the other person can answer in short. Otherwise I will call.
I'm typing out words as well in proper German or English, so sometimes it's hard to fit it all in one message. If need be, I will abbreviate words like they are abbreviated properly.
My cell phone only knows English and a couple of southeast Asian languages, so even if I wanted I couldn't use T9.

 

[U2isthebest]

By boring meetings I mean going into school at 7AM to choose what kind of photo album covers we're giving our classmates after junior prom.

I wish I was making that up.

So, yeah, in that case, texting.

Ah, I remember those days.

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

So much so that I usually go over on my monthly texting limits.

 

[BonosBaby12]

Only occassionally since I have to pay for each text message. Am guilty sometimes of abbreviating words. For the most part though I make great attempts to write out complete sentences.

 

[redhotswami]

I text all the time. I hated texting until I went to Dublin. Over there people text because it is cheaper than making calls. I don't understand how the phone plans work, but that's what I was told. So when I'd ring my friends they wouldn't answer and would text me back instead. So, I developed a habit. I haven't broken it since I've returned.

And yes I use shorthand. It's a phone, not a dissertation.

 

[U2isthebest]

So much so that I usually go over on my monthly texting limits.

 

[LemonMelon]

And yes I use shorthand. It's a phone, not a dissertation.

o rly i had no

 

[powerhour24]

I hate text messaging, I have it blocked on my phone, I tell my friends to talk to me if they want to reach me, after all that's what a "telephone" is for.

 

[clarityat3am]

I have a Blackberry Curve and I text on a fairly regular basis. The qwerty keyboard makes it ridiculously easy. I have issues with text speak though. I have to spell all the words out and use punctuation and all that.

The only way my sister will talk to people is via text. Kids these days!

 

[Angela Harlem]

i avoid texting like the plague.

 

[Laura M]

Over there people text because it is cheaper than making calls. I don't understand how the phone plans work, but that's what I was told.

That's the reason I text. If I put in £10 a month I get something like 1500 free messages. If I call home for a few minutes most of my money is gone.

I don't like texting but I do it a lot.

 

[coolian2]

I really only publically text if i'm trying to avoid talking to someone