I text from my cell phone a lot. I have a full qwerty keyboard, which makes it easier and it's included in my package, so it doesn't cost anything.
Plus, it's easier when I don't really want to talk to someone.
I do think it's becoming increasingly popular.
All of this is extremely true for me. I love that I can text someone a quick question or note without actually having to speak to them.
Mostly to and from my sister. It's good for communicating when one of the parties is generally disinclined to answer the phone or listen to voicemails.
I would definitely text more if I didn't have to pay per text, but I don't know that I would text enough to justify the extra five bucks a month. Also, my cell phone apparently has very little memory to store texts, and it gets full easily. I like saving nice texts.
Hivemind question: do you text from your cell phone? Why or why not? Do you think texting is becoming increasingly popular?
I generally text for three reasons - sending the same message to multiple people, when I don't need an answer (i.e. a text saying I'm going to be late), or when I know that the person's in a loud place.
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I don't have a cellphone.
I mostly text people when I'm a) in public and don't want to share my conversation with everyone, even if it's innocuous, or b) when I'm at a concert/event and the noise level is too loud to hold a conversation.
I generally text for three reasons - sending the same message to multiple people, when I don't need an answer (i.e. a text saying I'm going to be late), or when I know that the person's in a loud place.
Yeah, me too. Although I text with a coworker in other situations. Possibly it's because we didn't feel like we had a phone-level of relationship?
I don't have a cellphone either. I asked because we've got an IM Reference service at the library, and there's a way to set it up so we could receive text messages and reply through our existing IM setup. I've been seeing so many TV ads about texting, and my coworker with a 17 year old says all his son's friends are all over it, so I wonder if incoming college students will be all over the texting soon. For short stuff like "r u open??" We get IMs like that already.