Text Messaging. Do you?

[Romulus111VADT]

However, I don't take it to the point that I text the person standing right next to me... WTF is language for?

Exactly!

They were either exceptionally stupid or a pair of mutes....

[Fozzer]

I was given a cheap, pay-as-you-go Mobile 'Phone a few years ago, to enable me to call my Breakdown service, if I needed it, while using my Motor Bike.
Since then, I haven't broken down, Phoned anyone on it, or "Texted" anyone on it... ...

I just make sure its always switched off!.. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]...!

I just top it up every 3 Months* with <

[Sir_Crashalot]

I have a very nice Nokia. My boss gave it to me. It has a radio and a camera for pictures and videos, it has a nice colour display and mp3 ringtones. You can make phonecalls with it and send text messages. AND I HATE THE BLOODY THING!! Everyday I recieve calls from people just to ask me something stupid or I recieve a joke (?) by message. If you want to talk to me come by me, I'm never more then 10 minutes away. Ok, I'll admit it can be a usefull thing (in case of emergency) but for the rest I have no use for it....

Crash

[beaky]

It's great for noisy environments, or for very quickly exchanging information. It can be more polite, too- I'd rather have someone pause in a conversation to take a quick look at a text than stand there while they go "Hello? What? Who? Okay... wait, can you hear me now? Alright, what's up? Blah blah blah..." 

But on the other hand, it can be ultra-annoying to be talking to someone, turn your head briefly, then see them composing some lengthy tome with their thumbs... 

And texting while driving... very bad stuff!!

[Hagar]

It's great for noisy environments, or for very quickly exchanging information.

Don't know about quick. :-/ Very few people have my mobile phone number so only a couple of close friends & family actually call me on it. My daughter & a friend sometimes text me. I'm hopeless at texting & by the time I've composed a reply it would often be quicker to go round there & speak to them face to face. I prefer that anyway.

[quote]It can be more polite, too- I'd rather have someone pause in a conversation to take a quick look at a text than stand there while they go "Hello? What? Who? Okay... wait, can you hear me now? Alright, what's up? Blah blah blah..."

[Felix/FFDS]

[quote]

Only the densest would miss the point ... then again, you might be asked to repeat it, because they didn't understand it the first time?

[skoker]

I'm constantly texting.

[Fozzer]

[quote]I'm constantly texting.

[ShaneG_old]

I don't own a mobile phone,

[Hagar]

All this sometimes makes me feel like an old dinosaur. It might sound odd now but my parents never had an ordinary telephone. Never needed one. I didn't have one myself until after my daughter was born. That would have been in the early 1970s. We'd managed perfectly well without one for all those years & there was a public call-box just up the road for emergencies.

I often wonder what all those people that go around with mobile phones permanently clamped to their lug'oles find to talk about & if that call is really necessary. Seems to me the mobile phone networks are laughing all the way to the bank.

[CD.]

We never had a home phone either Doug, right up until I left home in 1988! I'm not sure when my parents got one, I'd guess around 1990. If I needed to make a call I'd pop up to the phone box at the top of the road with a 5p piece... I had to push that 5p so hard to get it to register.. sometimes I'd fail and get cut off!

Sometimes I wish I could go back to that.. being "unobtainable" 

[tcco94]

I text alot when people are talking to me. Im not the first person to usually text someone but im not a texting addict 

[tcco94]

[quote]I'm constantly texting.

[Steve M]

Not that it matters much, having a cell phone is a requirement of my job, being available 9 hours a day. The company pays for the bill. When there is a jobsite 50 miles away from me, and two thousand dollars an hour standing around in a cluster pf*ck waiting for an answer or a go ahead, I need to answer my cell phone. This doesn't happen every day, but when it does I answer with my voice dial.     

[a1]

I am afraid because of these people out there. It is really unsafe even talking on the phone but now texting??!!