Tuesday, 08 July 2008
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Text Messages
When they first came out, I asked myself, "Why would people pay money and waste time typing on a god damn telephone to send a message? Clearly a sensible person would realize they could just CALL the person..." and today, my stance hasn't changed much. Of course, this is because messages are saved to the phone, and in my line of work, we need as little of a trail as we can get.
Business aside, however, after a bit of thinking, I realized why texting has taken off like it has. It's because this generation hates to be social. Here's my reasoning. In the past few months, EVERY girl I've exchanged numbers with ALWAYS prefers to communicate in text messages instead of a phone call. This always ends up pissing me off, because a conversation that would take 30 seconds on the phone ends up taking 20 minutes to type out and send.
On the contrary, however, there are times when text messages should be used, and they should be used for awesomeness. There is one text message I have yet to recieve that would make me completely happy for like an entire month. It would read, "The revolution has begun." YES! admit it, just having that on your phone would make you feel like the ultimate badass. My brother and I (Holy shit yes I have a brother) were discussing the awesomeness of this ultimate text message, and we thought up a brilliant idea for executing it.
Our old college has this brilliant emergency system where they can text message the cell phones of all the students at once. See where I'm going with this? They hardly ever use it, but they did once last fall to notify us that some student with a gun was on campus and they didn't know where he was, but we should go to class anyway at risk of being shot so that the college didn't lose any money. Yet another reason, one would assume, that I left that school, but I digress. Anyway, since all the school computers, and I mean ALL, are on a network connected to a single school server, it probably wouldn't be hard to find the program and access it. If we actually cared to do it, I think it would be pretty easy and awesome to send the text message to all the students simultaniously, just to see what happens. Ahh... Hacking...
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vive la révolution!
Irritatingly enough, I use text messages fairly regularly. It's easier to communicate when I shouldn't be on the phone, and I know people who don't check voice messages, so if I know someone is away from the phone for a bit, I'll text them instead.
I did yell at someone for repeatedly texting me several times in a row when I could just be called though. It was ok, though, because he bought the drinks later.
Oh. And I totally checked to see if I had your number to text you re: revolution. I didn't. So sad.
i once felt that texting was so unsocial, as well.
but now i realize that it actually does comes in handy -- like when i'm forced to be somewhere i don't wanna be and i'm bored and disinterested.
and that's when the handy cell phone and the ability to text any friend throughout the world appeases me.
now i find myself texting more than i would've ever expected.
I'm gonna have to agree with you on the whole texting situation. I've recently stopped texting because well honestly it's gotten out of hand lol so Kudos to this post!
do it!
My college was too dumpy for a text message based emergency system. We used town criers and orphaned Depression-era paperboys.
@thanatos02 - My number's listed on my facebook, I think.
I have never sent a text message and I would not even know where to start if I got a mobile phone even with the instruction manual to hand.
The message: awesome. Both the anti-texting message and the ultimate of messages. Hate texting. Down with T-9!!!
But the brother is the most shocking part of the post.
@retired_at_21 - Best. Comment. Ever.
@DrugInducedDuck - That's kind of amusing.
It's actually faster for me to communicate via text message, but I have auditory perception problems and half the time I'm talking to people face to face I have to read their lips to understand what they are saying....But that would be cool if you could hack the program and send of really stupid mass messages....
Texting is a life savor to me sometimes.
I'm a telemarketer,and so when I want to escape work, I text my friends to make plans while I'm at my desk, then they come get me, I go have fun and my supervisor thinks I'm ill.
And, there's two of you?
Tell me he's going to be some sort of hit-man too.
:D
do it do it!
That message or other random ones along the lines of "The Eagle has landed" and so forth. Remember just a few (or more) years ago when only the older, more business oriented crowd has cell phones? The big brick kind (a la Zach from Saved by the Bell)? I'm not sure what our society has come to when 4-year olds are walking around with iPhones. As for texting, I only do it when I am incapable of talking on the phone yet it's weird to think that an idea designed to keep us all in constant contact despite time and distance renders us a less sociable society. Eh.
texting is a very unsubtle way of psyching out your friends in order to know what the hell they are doing and to see if what you're hearing about them while not hanging out with is true or not. and usually the case is they get pissed off at texts, just like everyone else. and that is just too funny. everyone starts text testing messaging one another and it becomes this whole other interesting game where everyone is wondering who is going to beat the other person while maintaining face in the mobile world. yeah!
next person i text is gonna send me an f-you response.
@ourlastkisscouldbethebest - He's going to Costa Rica in two weeks to oversee our drug and poaching operation in the rainforest. He makes the money, I keep the mob happy and the feds off our back.
@DrugInducedDuck - Niiice.
Where do I sign up to be in your family.
I like texting because I'm bad on the phone and find cell conversations particularly awkward and painful. One or the other party is always getting poor reception it seems, so there's a lot of uncomfortable "what was that? You're breaking up . . ." type stuff. The text message just goes through when it goes through, a complete, unbroken question or answer.
One thing I really hate though is when you're hanging out with a friend and s/he is texting away the whole time. Nothing says "I'm not interested in our conversation" like having an endless texting side conversation the whole time. Totally rude.
I masturbate to my hot text message sessions.
@GhostBenjimon - Do you know how hard it is to text one handed? Sigh...
My cell phone number is on my Facebook too, but people don't text me. Snobs.
oh this reminds me I'm so old I remember the days before cellphones.
And how we could sen mass emails to EVERYONE at our university department server and NOBODY abused that possibility,
I need a coke
@GhostBenjimon - Ahhhh, you almost had me for a minute there...
@DrugInducedDuck - This was all Nathan's idea. Nathan was Andrew. This was all Andrew's idea.
I can have conversations with myself.
No one will know.
I might decide to be gay. That kid is amazing.
I totally get what you mean about this...yet I still find myself texting a lot, although sometimes it is necessary. For instance, sometimes if I have a very short message to tell my mother but I know she's at work and in a meeting, I'll text her (yes, my mom texts).
The idea about sending out a mass revolution text message...now that is genious.