Hoarding Text Messages
By hereandthere
@hereandthere (45628)
Philippines
December 1, 2016 10:59am CST
I have been having problems with my old basic call-and-text cellphone. The signal has been on and off for a few weeks now, so I only receive a few text messages.
I have a feeling it's because the inbox and outbox are full: 4869 messages received, 4799 messages sent since Oct 2011.
It's crazy, I know. But some of those messages were exchanges during important events, while others were informative conversations.
Looks like I'll be holding the phone on my left, and writing down the messages with my right if I'm serious about preserving them.
Do you have super-old messages still saved in your phone's Inbox and Outbox?
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14 responses
@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
2 Dec 16
it's like some of them have sentimental value, which is silly. why do you seldom delete?
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@asfarasiknow (3340)
• Bournemouth, England
2 Dec 16
@hereandthere I don't send or receive texts that often. Most relate to business or family issues so I keep.them. It's more about record keeping than 'sentimental value. I do very little 'chatty' texting.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
2 Dec 16
@asfarasiknow yes, some of these messages fall under that category, too.
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@SIMPLYD (90717)
• Philippines
2 Dec 16
@hereandthere Oh my , i didn't take notice of those at all . 
@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
2 Dec 16
if you go to the first message you received and the first message you sent, what month and year is it?
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@LovingMyBabies (85923)
• Valdosta, Georgia
1 Dec 16
Once they get to 500 I start deleting because my phone starts acting a little funny.
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@LovingMyBabies (85923)
• Valdosta, Georgia
5 Dec 16
@hereandthere Yeah my phone is on the cheap side of things. Lol
@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
2 Dec 16
just 500? oh my poor cellphone is a martyr by now! hahaha!
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
2 Dec 16
Oh goodness...that many text messages will definitely affect your phone's performance! I remember back when I had a basic call and text flip-phone, and I was always having to delete old text messages to make room for new incoming ones!
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
2 Dec 16
i think what's happening is the recent ones spill off. i notice there are no messages for october.
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
2 Dec 16
@hereandthere I always used to have a problem with sending text messages. It would give me a notice that my storage was full and I couldn't send the message until I freed up some space on my phone.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
2 Dec 16
mine is a nokia c1. so many exes! hahaha!
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@toniganzon (77064)
• Philippines
2 Dec 16
since iPhone got its iCloud, all the messages have been saved since then and even though i changed iPhone models, I still have them.
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I think even my most active email, the number of inbox and outbox emails is still less than your numbers...
I'm checking my phone now... the oldest message was from May 2014.@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
1 Dec 16
now you made me look at my email. inbox 4700+, outbox 2500+ but of course my email account is much older than my cellphone!
so your oldest phone message is 2 years ago. but is the total number of messages in the 100s or 1000s?
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
1 Dec 16
@hereandthere Looks like you clean up your emails more regularly than your text messages... 
Hard to say on this mobile... It's a smartphone I got 2 years ago (that oldest message was like a welcome message from the manufacturer) and the way the text messages are set up is based on each conversation. But I'm pretty sure it's not in the 1000s - I don't message too much and only with a limited number of people. I also delete any messages I don't need to keep immediately and regularly.
Hard to say on this mobile... It's a smartphone I got 2 years ago (that oldest message was like a welcome message from the manufacturer) and the way the text messages are set up is based on each conversation. But I'm pretty sure it's not in the 1000s - I don't message too much and only with a limited number of people. I also delete any messages I don't need to keep immediately and regularly.1 person likes this
@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
1 Dec 16
@sishy7 i guess it's because i text more than i call
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
1 Dec 16
i should start learning to be that way
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@epiffanie (11325)
• Australia
3 Dec 16
I wish I kept or written down all the text messages from my sons ... they were precious to me even though some of them were arguments ..lol ..
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
4 Dec 16
agree, some are about family. i'm lucky in a way since i still have the phone, so i guess i better start writing them down
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
2 Dec 16
The oldest I had was way back 2013 but for some reason I accidentally deleted it.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
4 Dec 16
i prefer texting and emailing because i don't have social media accounts. my friends prefer texting and facebook.
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
4 Dec 16
@hereandthere I have a FB accounts, that I access using my computer.
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
2 Dec 16
with newer phones I think you can email convos, but with the old phones maybe not so much
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