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.
Very convincing. Makes me completely want to put myself under government control. Please take me to where you can make me unconscious and naked.
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Natter 57 Varieties
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Polter-Cow - Mar 28, 2008 9:51:52 am PDT #7986 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Dana - Mar 28, 2008 9:52:01 am PDT #7987 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Expy? Expwy?
Vortex - Mar 28, 2008 9:52:05 am PDT #7988 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
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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Expy.
Sue - Mar 28, 2008 9:52:11 am PDT #7989 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I don't have a cellphone.
shrift - Mar 28, 2008 9:54:07 am PDT #7990 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
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.
Jesse - Mar 28, 2008 9:54:22 am PDT #7991 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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?
flea - Mar 28, 2008 9:55:16 am PDT #7992 of 10001
information libertarian
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.
Polter-Cow - Mar 28, 2008 9:56:01 am PDT #7993 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
so I wonder if incoming college students will be all over the texting soon. For short stuff like "r u open??"
Yeah, undoubtedly.
Jesse - Mar 28, 2008 9:56:10 am PDT #7994 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, jeez -- I just got a message about a power surge on a USB port, and then I realized I was kind of idly sticking a paper clip into the USB port on the side of my dock thing. Oops!
lisah - Mar 28, 2008 9:56:43 am PDT #7995 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
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.
This is me. Also, there are certain people I text with way more often then we talk on the phone. Like my guitarist, texting is his main mode of communication.
Texting helped me out of a verrrry awkward potential dating situation last year, actually.