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Post by factorychef on May 26, 2011 7:27:36 GMT -5
They say the average teen texts 100 messages per day and a third of them are after they go to bed. So they average 3000 or more a month. What is your take on this. My phone will go 3 or 4 days without ringing and I kind of like it.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on May 26, 2011 7:35:46 GMT -5
They say the average teen texts 100 messages per day and a third of them are after they go to bed. So they average 3000 or more a month. What is your take on this. My phone will go 3 or 4 days without ringing and I kind of like it. Most of us, though there were exceptions, used to limit our communication with others to times when we had something to say. That limitation has been lifted. My response to this thread may be an example. |
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Post by Marshall on May 26, 2011 7:42:52 GMT -5
Sue likes to text. We text with the kids (married adults now). I text with some friends. Not a lot. Maybe 5 in a day then not again for a week.
The only text I got after bed was one @ 4:00 AM about 3 years ago when my son-in-law texted they were going to the hospital. The baby was coming. Both Sue and I sat up in bed immediately. Picked up our respective phones (on the night stands on either side of the bed), And texted back, "Great ! ! !"
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Post by aquaduct on May 26, 2011 7:44:40 GMT -5
I can see that number easily. I don't pay attention to the numbers anymore since we got a plan with unlimited texts, but in the early days my daughter hit upwards of 3500 messages a month. Good thing the unlimited family plans came into being then since at 10 cents a text, that made for 2 or 3 really horrendous phone bills.
But if you take it for what it is- each text is one half of a conversation exchange- you can picture a full conversation easily taking 10-20 texts. My wife and I have regular 5 -10 message conversations giving instructions for what to pick up at the grocery store. It's not all that hard to see how they build up quickly.
And it's tough to beat the convenience of texting while doing other things like sitting in a meeting or watching a loud high school football game or during the boring parts of a high school concert or when you're at opposite ends of the park. It's like email in that you can address it when it's convenient instead of having to tie yourself up in a phone conversation.
We've been cell phone only in our family for at least 4 or 5 years. We rarely talk on the phone. But we text like crazy. Tough to beat the convenience.
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Post by Doug on May 26, 2011 7:51:07 GMT -5
I have received maybe 50 text messages and 49 of those were ads. I've never sent one. Chris about the same but she did send one but she doesn't know how she did it. But I can see the appeal.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2011 8:04:29 GMT -5
Cheri will text me if she needs something, I text back "OK" and that is the full extent of my texting abilities. The granddaughters used to text me once in a while but they learned that Papa don't text so now they call when they want money. ;D
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Post by Lonnie on May 26, 2011 8:26:55 GMT -5
Afraid I have to weigh in on the negative on this one. I have a home phone, a cell phone, 20 email addresses, and a US mailbox on the front of my house. If I'm at a concert, a ball game, or somewhere where talking to someone is inconvenient or impossible, I certainly don't want to type to them. I actually leave the house sometimes without my cell phone, and sometimes when it's with me, I turn it off. If I was an on-call surgeon or a secret agent, texting might have an appeal, but I prefer to slip away from the network from time to time.
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Post by aquaduct on May 26, 2011 8:37:30 GMT -5
Afraid I have to weigh in on the negative on this one. I have a home phone, a cell phone, 20 email addresses, and a US mailbox on the front of my house. If I'm at a concert, a ball game, or somewhere where talking to someone is inconvenient or impossible, I certainly don't want to type to them. I actually leave the house sometimes without my cell phone, and sometimes when it's with me, I turn it off. If I was an on-call surgeon or a secret agent, texting might have an appeal, but I prefer to slip away from the network from time to time. I'm increasingly a luddite at heart and I can see that view. I learned pretty quick when I was with a company and working with Korean engineers that the 13 hour time difference is a killer. There's no substitute for the off button on the cellphone. But they're great for managing a family and that's pretty much the extent of my phone usage. I turn mine off at night. Drives my wife crazy. "What if someone needs to reach you?". "Anybody I care about that much will call you." |
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Post by Doug on May 26, 2011 8:43:55 GMT -5
When I have to leave a number I leave Chris' number. I often forget my phone and don't answer a lot of the time. I'm one of those people that can ignore a ringing phone. ;D
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Post by Don Clark on May 26, 2011 8:50:50 GMT -5
Cheri will text me if she needs something, I text back "OK" and that is the full extent of my texting abilities. The granddaughters used to text me once in a while but they learned that Papa don't text so now they call when they want money. ;D ;D About the same here, primarily because I don't have a keypad, just a standard phone.....and texting on mine is a PITA. I shared earlier I think that in the first 16 days that Shay had her phone that she got for her birthday, she had over 800 texts logged. We do not have unlimited texting. Barb used maybe 150, some work related. I had about 50.....some to Barb saying "OK", some to Shay saying "No". My brother Rick received an email once from a colleague that said "Hey Rick! Where have you been?! I texted you over a dozen times yesterday with no replies at all! What do I have to do to get a response from you?" Rick replied to the email....."Call me." |
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Post by Lonnie on May 26, 2011 8:53:56 GMT -5
When I have to leave a number I leave Chris' number. I often forget my phone and don't answer a lot of the time. I'm one of those people that can ignore a ringing phone. ;D Amen! |
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Post by mccoyblues on May 26, 2011 9:12:55 GMT -5
I text often but I wouldn't call it a lot. It's a great way to get a message to someone when you know they can't take a call. It's a lot easier to save a text with someone's phone number attached than listen to a long voice message waiting for the number at the end and then they talk so fast you don't understand it and you have to listen to the full message all over again. Plus with the most smrtphones you can text photos, files, links and what I particularly enjoy is contact information that is executable. Click on the phone number in the text message and it dials the number. Click on the email ID and it opens up your email program with the name imbedded in the TO box. Click on the "Save as Contact" button and it automatically creates a new entry in your contacts list. Texting information is much better than a voice message any day of the week. As a corporation we use texting at work every day. It's not on the phone, it's via the PC but it's still text messaging. When I need a quick answer for an immediate need I text the contact person and in almost every incident I get an immediate response. When I call they are almost always in a meeting or unavailable and an email meeage can be hours before I see a reply. It's a great communications tool when used properly. But when it pertains to teenage usage these numbers are decieving. A typical conversation between two teenage girls goes something like this: Did you see Brad last night Yeah, He looked sooo cool yep I wish he's look at me LOL I think I like him  he's so awesome do you think he likes me y/n YES COOOL Coool your my BFF THKS That's 15 text messages. So saying a teen can create 100 of those a day is a pretty easy number to grasp. Ask them to count the number of text messages that are shorter than 12 characters and it would probably be half of the messages sent. Every time you hit send or recieve that's a count of one. Ask them to count the number of CONVERSATIONS and those numbers would go way down. |
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Post by Supertramp78 on May 26, 2011 9:26:34 GMT -5
I text Cameron and he texts me since he can do it without bothering the people around him.
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Post by theevan on May 26, 2011 9:40:19 GMT -5
I text little but receive a good many, since my business phone is permanently forwarded to an answering service and they text each message they take.
The one that got me was when I went to Andrew Bird St. & St. Vincent at Tipitina's. Luminous, transcendant performances, both. I can't tell you how many in the (young) crowd were texting throughout. Huh?
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Post by omaha on May 26, 2011 9:46:31 GMT -5
I text a lot, but mostly in response to texts my daughters send to me. I probably average a few dozen a day.
One thing I really like is this new swipe mode for typing on my Droid. Mondo fast and easy once you get the hang of it.
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Post by millring on May 26, 2011 9:48:59 GMT -5
i dwt Il evr gt uz 2 it
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Post by dradtke on May 26, 2011 9:50:11 GMT -5
I text occasionally with the kids and with Melva, but usually only to ask a quick question. And I'm good at ignoring the phone. The convenience of a cell phone is having it when you need it, not being tied to it constantly.
Of course, I'm careful to delete all the texts I get from the beautiful models I'm having affairs with.
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Post by Marshall on May 26, 2011 9:50:42 GMT -5
I go to a Suburban Folk Club open mic from time to time. I asked to get on their mailing list. Turns out they mail out a piece of paper every month in the snail-mail. I asked once about email, and some very nice old lady said indignantly, "Not everybody has email, you know! ! ! ! "
Sheesh.
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Post by omaha on May 26, 2011 9:51:50 GMT -5
My kids think e mail is for old people.
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Post by mccoyblues on May 26, 2011 9:56:52 GMT -5
They're right
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