octal9

February 18th, 2010 at 3:42 PM ^

Yeah, earlier generations were awesome. I mean, they made blacks use separate restrooms. Awesome.

yes, a texting competition is probably certainly ridiculous, but society as a whole is trending forward.

Mr. Robot

February 18th, 2010 at 3:59 PM ^

The hilarious thing is that I've only been able to ext for about a year, and have only had a text-friendly phone (As in, has a keyboard of some kind) for about two months.

Texting is definitely a handy thing to have from time to time, but for the life of me, I do not understand WHY people have entire conversations that way. If you want to talk that much, use your PHONE for what its primarily suppose to be (A PHONE).

Alexander Bell didn't event the telephone so that 130 years later people would go right on back to a modern-day telegraph system.

Also: [Consumerist in Me][Rant]
I can't BELIEVE that cell phone companies get away with charging ANYTHING for texting! I don't care if everybody on your network is sending a message a second, the bandwidth strain has got to be next to NOTHING! ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CAN ONLY HAVE 160 (Don't quote me on this number, don't actually remember for sure) CHARACTERS AT A TIME!

It's a dream come true for them that you want to shell out extra cash to take up absolutely nothing on the way of bandwidth when you could be TALKING and actually making what you're paying for worth it to some degree!

If you've just got a quick question or you're in a place where you need to be quiet go ahead and text. As much of a rip-off as it is, that's what its there for, and its not a bad thing to have. But for the love of money, DON'T pay for more than the minimum text plan (Because you should never need more than that) and TALK. Faster, better, and your getting your bandwidths worth.[/Rant][/Consumerist in Me]

mgowin

February 18th, 2010 at 4:27 PM ^

Hey kids, get off my damn lawn! Sorry I just had to do it, but I do actually agree with you. I missed the constant texting generation by about 3 years. I think that they are handy in certain instances, especially when you want to tell someone something who is prone to long conversations. But I don't get the whole conversation thing either. Its like reverse technology. Next thing kids will be sending messages to each other in Morse code, and mailing letters instead of Emails.

Mr. Robot

February 19th, 2010 at 1:02 AM ^

As I cannot edit my post any longer for some reason, I would like to formally ask forgiveness for my two crucial English failures. The "ext" is a blatant type, but I just realized I put "event" instead of "invent" and used a "your" where a "you're" belongs.

I honestly don't have an excuse for this. Apparently not having a regular English class is more detrimental then I thought it would be...

Mitch Cumstein

February 18th, 2010 at 4:41 PM ^

""It works perfect for me -- it's perfect for the text messaging enthusiast," she insists."

What exactly is a text messaging enthusiast? Man I wish someone would invent a device that would allow people to talk to each other instead of writing messages.