Do you text message?

But don't you miss actually hearing the voice of your friends and family? I mean, hearing them giggle as something you said that was funny or letting them enjoy hearing you giggle? or the groans and other non-word comments? Texting just seems to take the personality out of "chatting". We do it here I know but sometimes I get tired of seeing "LOL!!" instead of hearing the laughter!

But isn't it funner or better, whatever you want to call it.. to say what you want to say in one blurb, instaed of texting a sentence at a time, and having to remember what your texted, what you read and put it all together to make a conversation? I mean if you ask "hey, how's your day?" nad it is texted by "Oh, fine". You text, "What are you doing to day", nad it is texted back "nothing". You text, "Well wanna come over?" they text.... and on it goes. Could have been done while ago if it was spoken...and what about hte times when you have to repeat like directions just to make sure they got them... I can think of alot of things that would be better spoken than texted, but I guess I am in the minority. I hate texting! Guess I have more to say than most.

I can see it would be useful for emergencies and if you don't have access to a phone due to job or on the road or something like that, but to say to use it to text "while in a meeting" - shame on you! You should be listening to the meeting!!!!! (LOL!!!) Just kidding of course! I hate texting. I"ll do it for quick things, but not a conversation. Allt hat tapping and tapping and once, twice, three taps, ooppss! I thought I pressed it three times to get the third letter, but here is hte second one, oh, good grief I tapped four times instead of 3!!!!! No, thank you. Call me!

I certainly agree with that, for those who do text. My son and his wife text back and forth during the day when neither is allowed to have a phone turned on. Some days they have things that have to be discussed NOW and texting works as a real timesaver, even practically a lifesafer in some cases, for them.

I haven't used up my tracfone minutes either, but they did come in handy when we went on vacation this summer. My husband will be happy to know that I'm not the only one who calls a blackberry a blueberry!

I had seen those on TV,, didn't know what they were called. But I thought - really, now you don't have to read books you just use this tiny little screen to read? Some how it, to me, just takes the fun out of reading and the relaxation out of it. Where's the "turn the page" fun? You know, when you get so intereted and excited and you just can't wait to "turn the page".... now, what, you just scroll down? !!? "snuggle up with a good book in front of the fire", somehow just won't be the same! Another legacy, down the internet! I dont' want one of those!

I guess family plans are the way to go. A blackberry allows you to do email on the go, which would be a great thing for me since I communicate with my family and just about everyone else via email these days. Problem is, I'm rarely on the go since I'm such a homebody. There's probably a lot more you can do with it than that, so maybe someone else can chime in. I do know you can get them with a little keyboard, which would be a lot easier than the standard cell phone keys. The Kindle is something new from amazon.com. It's a wireless reading device, a great gadget about the size of a paperback book, a thin one, and you can buy books from amazon and upload them onto the Kindle and read them there. One cool thing is that the screen is a new technology that isn't backlit so it's easy to read and, in fact, looks like you're reading paper. You can also subscribe to newspapers and magazines and the latest edition is uploaded automatically. I'd love to have one so I can read in bed. Did you ever have a heavy book plop onto your nose when you were reading in bed?? I have and it isn't very fun. Anyway, there are other cool things about it including the wireless technology, which uses advanced cell phone technology instead of a wireless internet connection. Do I sound like I know what I'm talking about? The Kindle is about the only device I know anything about because I'm so interested in it. I read a lot, watched the videos, and even made a Squidoo page about it. It's on my "in my dreams" list, but you never know. I guess I should send that list to Santa!

Oh, so you are saying the new version of the "dear John" letter, is now texted!?!?! NO letter to set aside until you have the guts to open it??? Can you tell I am still in the 20th century???

Never heard of that way. My phone is probably to old for it. My daughter put me on her plan and last time she updated, she handedm e down hers and I tossed the one I had (well, I gave it to the GD's to play with) and that was about 2-3 years ago. She upgraded again, and gave me one with, well forget what it was, but it was the same but backwards as the one I had. So I told her I'd rather keep the one I had. I just would rather speak to a person - bad enough when you have to talk to an automated voice, but to have to "speak" in silence - I'll pass on that one!

I'm kind of with you. Those that like it fine, those that don't, that's fine to. I just am amazed that so many do so much with it. Doesn't anyone want to talk anymore? I mean if we keep texting, the world is going to become very quiet! Doesn't anyone like to chat and visit any more? I say that as here I am chatting and visiting via email and mylot......no spoken word here either! Guess it is all in the finger action of choice!

And in reading and commenting back to everyone that posted here, I have to admit - i am not "with the times'. I bet the same conversation went around when email with a PC came about! I can hear it..."Can't they just pick up a phone and call instead of sitting there typing?" Now, its the same phrase, just what we are typing on is different! Oh well, to each his own! I'll just not text if I don't want to and no one can make me!!!!

I'll do it for a quick note or something, but my daughter insists on "talking" to me via text and I hate it and just tell her to call if she wants to talk and I'll do same. She never calls, and if I call her, I get a voice msg!!! I have ato say I believe she is the Queen of texting!!!

My daughter put me on her plan and she is the text message queen. But she just upgraded and renewed her account and bought new phones - buy one get one free so she got us each a new phone, smart thing she is got them identical so she can better help me when I ask her "how does this work or how do I do this?" Now the keypad is smaller, the keys are smaller and I have to memorize the alphebet cause i can't see the letters on the keys! And all the procedures are different on this phone so I have to learnt he whole thing over again, and good grief, can you just call me!

Woo! WhooO!! SPoken as tho I spoke it myself!!!

Now don't make fun of us "over the hillers"! We can only change so fast! Common sense is what we deal with and that isn't so common these days! Just CALL US!!!!! (LOL!!)

If I had to choose I'd choose email. At least you can have the time to "talk" or get all you need to say out. IT just takes so long to tap it all out on texting and that tiny little screen to read what you've said after forgetting where you were in amongst all the tapping... wears me out! CALL ME!!!! I am only allowed 100 incoming and 100 out going per month for free (included in the plan) anything over costs. I am not going to pay any amount just to say "k" or "no" or "yep" or anything like that and that is what people respond with alot!

I get 100 free in and 100 free out...after that it is 10¢ each way - that means the person that sends it is charged 10¢, for me to receive and read it is 10¢, for me to respond to it is 10¢ nad for the person I send it back to is 10¢ - that is 40¢ a text message! Is that cheap? I don't know. I'd rather they just call me on the land line!

Its good for quick yes and no, but sometimes a yes or no doesn't answer the question! I get tired of sitting there tapping whena simple phone cal could rap it up in a minute! I am on my daughters account and it is 100 free text messages in and 100 out - to anyone. but the phone time is free between her and me and anyone else iwth that carrier. Just seems that a call would make it all easier!

I don't have the keyboard style and that constant tapping 1 for a twice for b and three times for c and that same procedure on all keys, I always get to where I forget what I had said, was saying or which I had tapped first!! Insanity just looms over me on this! Although we do have a big problem with reception. First floor of a 3 story apartment building, we dont get any phone recep on the cells unless we go outside, so text always comes through, but I have a land line!! USE IT!!!!!

And you have to learn the text shorthand! you know, leave off silent letters and stuff like that. Then we go to type and type as we text and our typing is a mess! Talk about living in 2 worlds!

Okay, stop showing off, garnet80! Multiple texts at once? You've got to be kidding!!!?! (LOL!) I'm lucky to get one out to one person at a time and only have to go back and fix 8 or 9 typos because I tapped twice instead of three times and got a B instead of the C!!!! I could have been done with the call by then if we'd just talked and now I have to wait for the reponse!!