Can someone explain the appeal of text messages?

[finn's mom]

Texting is cheaper and quicker. Bottom line for me. If I pick up the phone and dial anyone, it's hard to have a one minute conversation just to say I'm on my way...without sounding rude or short. With my mom or David, it's possible, because they know me well enough to know if I say "I just want to tell you I'll be there in fifteen minutes", they know I'll be there and I don't want to talk at that moment. But, for most other people, it's just easier to send a text and be done with it. I still don't use text message lingo or anything, though. I can't type "lol" or "c u l8r" or any of those other abbreviations or acronyms. It's bad enough that letter writing is nearly obsolete. At least let me type in (mostly) complete sentences.

My mom, in the last year, has learned to text, and there really is nothing sweeter than getting a text message from my mother telling me she's thinking of me, loving me and hoping I'm having a great day.

[Hellow]

Texting ROCKS! It gives us teens a way to talk to someone without actually *talking*. It is easier than phoning and it wont let your parents *hear* what you are *saying*.

[Aspen and Misty]

and it wont let your parents *hear* what you are *saying*.

In my opinion, If you are talking about things your parents shouldn't hear, then you probably shouldn't be talking about them at all.

Ashley

[Hellow]

In my opinion, If you are talking about things your parents shouldn't hear, then you probably shouldn't be talking about them at all.

Ashley

What if you are talking to your girlfriend?

[Almita]

For me I text, but not overboard like many people. I have unlimited texting. I just text people so i can contact them, know what is going to happen that day, etc. When we want to talk about what ever we are on the phone because it takes forever to text it all on a phone, or hard to explain by texting and IM. So mostly i text people most of the time during the weekday when calling is not for free unless i'm at home i can call.

[RedHedd]

What if you are talking to your girlfriend?

Ditto - If you are talking about things your parents shouldn't hear, then you probably shouldn't be talking about them at all.

[sparks19]

Ditto - If you are talking about things your parents shouldn't hear, then you probably shouldn't be talking about them at all.

LOL It's not nessecarily things your parents shouldn't hear.... more things you don't want them to hear hahaha.

I don't know any teen that wants their parents to hear them sweet talk their g/f or b/f hehe In my house that would have led to "teasing" about having a b/f and how cute it was lol

[shais_mom]

I have unlimited minutes also and unlimited txting to people in my network - I have a few people not in my network and I have to pay to txt them. But its more convient to txt someone and tell them that you miss them or you are thinking of them than to call them sometimes.

[cali]

I am not a big texter, but it most certainly comes in handy. its happend before that my best frineds mom asks me to text her daughter for something important, her daughter in in highschool, and I cannot phone her cell while she is in class, and the office wont interupt a student in class if you not the students parent. one example: my friends little sister was rushed to the hospital, her mom wanted her other daughter to know what was going on, but needed to rush to the hospital, and cant have her cell on at the hospital. her daughter was in class so she asked me to text her kid a quick note, and ask her to call me ASAP for more info. her mom did not have time to call the school and sit there waiting 10 minuts for her kid to get to the phone, and if her cell rang in class if would have been confiscated on the spot without being answered.

now the appeal of contsant texting? I dont get, its not that easy to type with a cell phone lol

[Aspen and Misty]

Ditto - If you are talking about things your parents shouldn't hear, then you probably shouldn't be talking about them at all.

Just so you guys know, whenever I text messege I think of this thread now, lol!

Ashley

[RICHARD]

I have never sent a text message in my life.

I can see why talking to or seeing someone in person is awkward, who needs that personal contact?

Why should I..

Drive over to a friend's house to get a warm human hug?
Be able to see a tear in the corner of the same friend's eye when
she tells me she is down?
Have to look into those same eyes and watch them smile?
Share a soda or having to stay for a meal?
Sprawl out on a couch for an hour of two of TV?
put up with a crazy laugh, when I can sanitize it in a text message?

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Some of my favorite Stupid Text Tricks are-

Having people pay more attention to a Blackberry than to our converstation.

Watching a person interrupt a conversation with an incoming text message, then call that same person two seconds later on a cell phone.

Like, why not just call them and skip a step?

Sitting in on a meeting and watching people text, five minutes later they ask about the topic that was being discussed while they were typing!

YOU CANNOT TEXT AND DRIVE A MANUAL TRANSMISSION!


People who will look at text message and ignore it because it's "from work".
Then kill themselves to take a message "from home" because it's "from home"
I love that in business people!

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I just saw a cartoon where there are two adults talking One is staring intently at a baby held in their arms...The other adult says, "That's not a birthmark, It's a USB port...."

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IT's bad enough that there are so many people that are going blind on their own......Just wait...in a few years you'll be crashing into shiat becuase that little LED screen made you go blind!

Follow the white rabbit. Mr Smith will straighten you out.

[sparks19]

Well we have the unlimited text messaging plan on our phone but it was mostly because when we had to live seperately (me in Canada and him in the US) I could always just send him a quick text for free rather than pay long distance charges lol

And then sometimes I text him during the day while we are working if I have a question since we aren't always available to talk on the phone.

Just an added convenience sometimes

[Suki Wingy]

So you can communicate durring class when you're not supposed to have a phone out?

[ILoveMyAbbyGirl]

So you can communicate durring class when you're not supposed to have a phone out?

Exactly!!

I've yet to be busted, lmao.

XD

[RedHedd]

I've yet to be busted

Oh, but you will be, you will