Community weekly poll: How many text messages have you sent in the last month?
- 4/25/07 4:36 PM
Not Much Use
by smjohnson - 4/26/07 4:37 AM In reply to: How many text messages have you sent in the last month? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I only send a handful of messages per month at best. I have told my family and co-workers, that I can be reached in meetings via text, where I would not normally answer the phone. In emergency situations, when lots of people are on the phones, a text message seems to have abetter chance at getting through.
Otherwise, I am not a big fan of giving more money to the carrier. The monthly bills are more than high enough already.
Very few people really need it!
by Gcmartt - 4/26/07 4:48 AM In reply to: How many text messages have you sent in the last month? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Teenagers and Collage kids use it a lot. One of my frieds has a kid in collage and a while back he got his bill and instead of the normal $70. it was over $300 that month due to text messaging. He said all of the messages where ******** between the students.
sometimes, text messages are less intrusive
by mlfoley - 4/26/07 5:09 AM In reply to: How many text messages have you sent in the last month? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My son is in college and, in spite of living in the same house, our paths intersect on an almost-random basis. I have no idea when he's in class or when he's free, so if I need to ask or tell him something, I send a text message. An added benefit: I know he'll see the text message *long* before he checks his voice mail!
1 a month at most
by Bob_Meyer - 4/26/07 5:22 AM In reply to: How many text messages have you sent in the last month? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My wife is a school teacher and it's usually easier/quicker to text her than to call or email, especially if I'm not at home. But it's just a convenience, not a necessity.
SMSs
by dre.caruana - 4/26/07 5:29 AM In reply to: How many text messages have you sent in the last month? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I think it's useful I don't send much text messages currently, because i'm incompatible with my phone, but I'm waiting for a new one after my exams, which I'm sure I'll practice with. If the phone - the keypad and everything is good, then you won't even recognize sending a text message form typing on the keyboard, but if not, you'lle probably end up mixing everything up...
Only for sending lists and "postcards"
by Emilio2000 - 4/26/07 5:59 AM In reply to: How many text messages have you sent in the last month? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use text messaging only once or twice a month, and I like it when I need it, but mostly it's easier (and cheaper) to send an email or a voice call. I use text messaging mainly for two things:
1. When my wife wants to send me a grocery shopping list. She could also send me an email (which I can pick up on my Palm Treo), but I might not know I have an email waiting, unless I check my inbox and download new messages. The advantage of a text message is that my phone beeps once to alert me to the arrival of a new message. The beeping would be annoying if it beeped often, but once in a while is OK. By the way, from her point of view, she is actually sending me an email, from her laptop PC. Only, when the email is addressed to my cell phone number, it somehow gets automatically converted into a "text message". I like this integration between email and text messaging.
2. When I want to send my wife a "postcard" of something I've seen or a place I visited. I take a photo with my cell phone and message it to my wife. It costs me 40 cents per such message, but I figure it is somewhat comparable to the price of postage for sending a postcard (plus the convenience of sending my own photo). This is technically a "multimedia message", ... but I guess bits are bits. And the cell-phone service provider charges for every bit or byte sent this way. That's why they are pushing text messaging on us!
Sad State of Human Communications
by suedihfed - 4/26/07 6:05 AM In reply to: How many text messages have you sent in the last month? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
We are getting to the point where people speak only to devices and not to other people. Spelling is not considered to be important as the language of texting mutates into shorthand. Reading a book is considered 'old fashioned'. I do not text, will never text and do not speak to people with devices sticking out of their ears. When someone comes into my store, I wait until they finish their conversation before I deal with them. Am I old-fashioned ? I don't think so. I am simply trying to preserve the endangered art of face-to-face communication.
Walk a mile in my shoes.
by CobraCrew - 4/26/07 7:46 AM In reply to: Sad State of Human Communications by suedihfedI hope you don't have family members or friends who suddenly lose their hearing like I did and find that text is the only way to keep in touch while away from home.
Count your blessings, and don't judge others until you've walked a mile in their shoes.
Text messaging literally saved my life.
not ture
by to_good4u12345 - 4/26/07 8:31 AM In reply to: Sad State of Human Communications by suedihfedI am tired of hearing people claim that tecnology is trying to eliminate the need for face to face communication. I am a college student and I do not mutilate the language by usuing shorthand in my texts, I use full words and punctuation as do many of my friends. The people that you are reffering to are middle school kids who should be able to be just that-kids. Why in today sociaty are parents and adults in there 30's forcing kids to grow up? Why should kids not be allowed to text a quick joke to someone having a bad day that they might not see later on, without someone older jumping at them that its dumbing them down? Text messaging in no way eliminates the need for human touch or anything else for that matter, and its foolish to think of it that way.
It is useful and cheaper if you do not live in the USA
by david.llewellyn - 4/26/07 6:08 AM In reply to: How many text messages have you sent in the last month? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I live in France, my kids live in the UK. It still costs a fortune to talk on a mobile phone from one European country to another, so I sometimes send text messages. Especially if I do not want to disturb them or do not need a reply(e.g. to say we have arrived safely after travelling and it is late)
Another buzz device of the day
by Irelands child - 4/26/07 6:46 AM In reply to: How many text messages have you sent in the last month? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Ho hum. Between people doing their grooming in public, driving with their cell phone deformed arm at their ears causing mayhem on the road, listening to one end of inane coversations everywhere and hearing the ridiculous ringtones from cells and dings from the 2 ways - we now have one more way to be "connected" with text messages. Why. I'm absolutely not anti-electronic, I just find it hard to understand WHY people feel that they absolutely need to be connected to an electronic device 24/7. And, yes, their 'pods to make sure that they can hear their 'tunes'.
Let's see what I need so I can go out today to face the world:
I Pod with 5999 or so tunes
Cell with text/camera/email/caller ID/call waiting/voice mail/etc.
Beeper to get messages from those that don't have a cell
Blackberry to be able to work on the run
Wi-Fi Laptop so when I stop, I don't have to rely on my 'berry
I'm sure I missed some, but you get the picture -
Dumb, isn't it??
STUPID
by almightyfire - 4/26/07 6:57 AM In reply to: How many text messages have you sent in the last month? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I dont pay for text messaging and I keep getting them from people. My old carrier blocked them but my new one doesnt. It is a money getting ploy. I am charged ten cents per message even if i dont want them. Now that is a shame. If someone gets mad at someone who doesnt pay for it they can just sit there and send thousands of messages just to getback at them, that is the most unnecessary invention there is. IF U WANT TO TALK TO SOMEONE TALK. It is just as easy or easier to press the call button and say what u have to say.
Be thankful
by CobraCrew - 4/26/07 7:42 AM In reply to: STUPID by almightyfireI understand your point of view, but I hope you really just how lucky you are you still have hearing and can even use a phone normally.
Texting is also a discreet way of getting a message to someone without necessarily interrupting them in a meeting, etc.
Text messeging
by ethanthom - 4/26/07 6:58 AM In reply to: How many text messages have you sent in the last month? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I bet not many people out there are comfortable with the small keys on most cell phones.That is the reason not as many people txt as would. Younger people txt more because their parents pay the cell bill,and texting is cheaper than calling I get 300 txt a month and usually use most of them.They are a part of my plan,so I pay for them if I use them or not. I love being able to have a private conversation with a co-worker when we are in a boring meeting. The smirk or giggle during a presentation sometimes can be embarrassing. allan 37
Valuable for us
by CobraCrew - 4/26/07 7:41 AM In reply to: How many text messages have you sent in the last month? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
As someone who lost the rest of my residual hearing to become 100% deaf (and waiting for a year to fight insurance for a cochlear implant), text messaging literally saved my life and kept me connected to my husband when he was away and to friends, etc.
Until you've lost your hearing and stuck out in the middle of nowhere with no internet access to send email, etc... that's when you realize that texting isn't just for teens.
So don't knock it. Even my 77yo father took the time to learn to text just so he could keep in touch with me.
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