I Don't Text Message
 

I must be the only person on the planet who thinks texting is stupid. Yet lately the guys I go out with prefer to send me texts than to call. I, personally, think that is stupid. If you want to talk to me, call me. It's pretty direct and straightforward. If you want to share an interesting story, email or call. It's pretty simple. I make it clear with these people that I'm not into texting. I spend all day in front of a computer and when I get home/go out, I don't want to stare at my phone trying to decipher stupid messages like "U R Gr8!"

Phones=talking. Email=text messages.

Discuss. I am beginning to have visions of myself yelling at kids to get off my lawn. And I don't have a lawn. Am I just old before my time or are there other people who are anti-texting? The only time I find it useful is if I'm meeting someone in a loud place and I can't hear my phone.

I text, but i spell everything out. It's nice for when I'm at work. And I know my friend always has a phone by her, but might not be at her computer for hours.

I spell everything out too - my best friend informed me that if she ever got a text from me saying "lts go 2 the bar" she would never speak to me again.

One of my good friends doesn't have a home puter, so if I emailed her, I would have to wait for her to get to the Starbucks or wherever they have access to check her messages. We text all the time.

Plus it can be really funny to look back at them the next day. :)

But as far as guys you date - they should be calling. I would never go out with a guy who asked me out via text.

I'm ashamed to say I've gotten on the text bandwagon. :o I didn't start texting until about a year ago. My friends and acquaintances would often use it to save daytime minutes (but they would sometimes text me so much that I'd go over my allotted messages).

I used to HATE texting. It was a waste and I hated the fact that this particular guy would text me all the time instead of calling me and saying "how are you...what are you up to?" I used to ignore his texts and he'd be mad that he wouldn't hear from me until he picked up the phone and called. 33girl is right, men who are interested in you shouldn't text you like that UNLESS it's understood that they are in meetings all day and have something to tell you--like finalizing plans for the evening. For that instance, texting is just like a guy using his Blackberry to send me an email to finalize a lunch date if he's about to get out of a meeting and doesn't want to wait until the last minute to call me.

Now I find myself texting people and saying "just saying hi" or "what's up for the weekend?" These are people who I know are either at work or in a meeting, or I don't want to have a conversation but instead want them to know I'm thinking about them and/or have a question to ask. Many of the people I know are actually more accessible via text than by calling their cell.

I think I've sent one text message in the last year - and that was because my phone wouldn't get phone service, but it could send text messages (yeah, not really sure how that works) and I needed my dad to come over and fix something at my house.

My husband sent me a few texts while we were dating...just "thinking of you" type stuff, especially when we were living in different states, but not anymore.

I love text messaging, but I refuse to use chatspeak to do it! The people who drive me nuts about texts are the ones who want to have an entire conversation via text message to "save their minutes." Don't waste 20 of my text messages when we could just burn up 2 minutes on the phone instead.

I'm annoyed by people who want to text but are soooo slow. Use the friggin T9 function. (The one that lets you spell out the word quickly instead of hitting each button repeatedly)

My boyfriend uses the T9 feature & I often end up with text messages that mean something completely different than what he intended. Even if its not the word he wanted, he will not go back & change it!

i dont text message so i had them disable it. just pick up the phone and call me.

For the longest time, I was getting umm...inappropriate texts on my Nextel at work. They came every day at the same time, so I'm thinking one of the plumbers thought he was being funny and signed the phone up for some joke service. There was no return # on it to block, so I had to have everything - voice mail, text messages, IP address, etc stripped from the phone to get it to stop. It is now a phone/radio and that is it.

My thoughts exactly. My personal favorite is "what r u doing l8r?"

I don't understand why it is popular now. It has been around since I was in my last college at least -1999. I did it then, and only when I got a new Nokia small phone, which was popular then. About three weeks of it and I was bored.

Messages are always misconstrued as to tone. I would rather just speak to a person.....

Now that is laziness, when I type a word and it's not the right one, even before I move to the next I can scroll down and find the right word (or spell it if it's really weird or a proper noun) It's not that hard people :p

I remember being at Verizon recently, and a mom was trying to get a bigger text message plan for her daughter because she kept going over every month....she was using over TWO THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED text messages a month. The employee informed her that 2500 was the biggest plan that they have and you can't add any more.



2500...what else would you have time to do???

no idea, but Cingular has "Unlimited" Texts. She should switch providers ;)

Of course, I have Sudoku on my phone now so I don't have time for anything either.

Holy shit! i think her ass better start using her phone minutes! :eek:

Me and texting don't get along...I am not one who can create a message in 5 seconds--more like 5 minutes

You are not alone, my friend.

I don't like text messages either.. infact I don't like cell phones. I have one, but it's always turned off. I only use it if I have an emergency-- such as my car breaks down, or I'm going to be late meeting someone.

I wish they made a phone that was just a phone. I don't play games, check my email, text or take photos with my phone. I don't need an appointment reminder or day planner or an alarm clock on my phone.

I just need it to store numbers and make calls! Why don't they make simple phones anymore?

I think they do, but they're all "pay as you go" phones.

And my friend recently broke up with her bf....

and her bf texted-dumped her....umm, now talking about "wave of the future" hehe :D . What next, "omg, my bf facebook-dump me?!:eek: "

But I felt really bad for her afterwards. He doesn't deserve her =P

I like texting because I really don't like talking on the phone. Also, my new phone has this AWESOME thing where I can use "voice mode" to text -- it transcribes what I say. It's not perfect, but it does a pretty good job -- much better than that T9 crap, which I don't like at all.

That has happened to a few people I know--grown people. It's crazy. :rolleyes: Or, rather, those men are crazy.

I text message very occasionally. I always spell things out though - chatspeak annoys me. And if I need to have an actual conversation, I use the phone rather than texting.

I text, but I spell everything out... and it's only little stuff, I HATE HATE HATE having "conversations" through Text.

What kind of phone do you have? I'm overdue for a new one.

I pay the extra $5 to get/send unlimited texts and it's funny because I have the plan with the least amount of minutes. I'm on the phone pretty much all day at work and I absolutely hate talking on the phone after hours unless I really have to.

I was the one in middle school/high school you couldn't get off the phone... now you're lucky if I'm even on the phone five minutes because I can't stand it.

I have this guy, and really like it so far. Apparently I can watch TV on it, but haven't gotten that far yet.

I'm the same way. I don't really like the phone now.

My friend has her texts blocked because she was geting porn advertisments, and it bothers me. Each time I call her, I tell her to turn the text on again.

I text because I can't talk on the phone during the day.

I started texting when I lived in Australia in 2002 because it was HUGE there. I got back to the US and only one person I knew even knew what it was. I have a few friends that I text, but like pretty much everyone here, I refuse to use chatspeak. Nothing drives me more insane. It's good for when I'm at work and don't want to be taking personal calls all day tying up my business line.

I LOVE text messaging. I hate chatting on phones, I like to have it for basic questions, making plans, etc, but the second someone goes "so whats up?" I have to end the conversation. I think texting is great because I can ask "What time are we meeting up tonight?" and they respond with an answer...usually drawn out, but my friends know that I refuse to be drawn into a conversation, and am happy with just what I need to know.

When my hs daughter first went away to school, we got the family plan cellphone bill with a couple of "surprises". She honestly had no idea that there was a charge to text-message. We disabled text messaging immediately after that so there would be no further temptation...

I love text messages because I can have a quick conversation without having to be on the phone..it comes in handy in class, meetings.. etc...I have unlimited texts so thats not a problem but if its going to take more then a few minutes to resolve the issue I'd rather just talk..some of my high school clients tell me tht they text all day in class though...thats pretty sad...it was so much fun trying to get a note to a friend back in the day...these kids today are missing out...

I'm with Jill. It takes me forever to text. So I usually just answer them back and tell them to please just call me!!

I'm definitely anti-texting.

I have never sent a text message.

My best friend has sent me a few in the past- mainly saying "Please call" or the sort. But I truly know nothing about sending them.

I have no idea how to text message. I would rather someone just call me.

I've recently started to use it more - generally in those situations where i need to tell someone something and i can't talk on the phone. I can send messages through my instand messenger and it saves me txt messaging charges. Although I have a family member who for years would only communicate through email - never the phone, has now switched to text messaging, i'll call him and he'll send me back a txt..... that annoys me to NO end!

I'm a text msg addict. It's a great quick way to talk to people. I'm not always at a computer to email and sometimes a phone call is too much work. I try to keep the msgs short & to the point. It's good in the city I guess because some restaurants & bars have too much noise to take a call and some don't allow the use of cell phones period.
As far as relationships & texting: I think in the beginning there should be more phone calls than texts. However, I always appreciated a short & sweet surprise text while I was dating.

One thing to worry about with excessive text messaging is getting carpal tunnel/ tendonitis. I heard it has become a lot more common in Asian countries where texting has been popular for a lot longer.
My cousin can literally hold a conversation with someone and text message at the same time. I kind of find it annoying that her fingers are moving while I'm talking... One day by noon she'd already sent 200. That would definetly put her over the 2500 mark. :eek:

I personally like to text during sorority meetings...it can be quite entertaining!

But anyway, I like to text, but only in a small amount. I normally reserve it for yes/no questions and if someone wants to start up the whole text-convo I turn off my phone.