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I couldn't figure out texting either, until recent...

2009-07-15T19:10:35.190-04:00

I couldn't figure out texting either, until recently. Made no sense until I started to experiment with it. After getting way from the adolescent BFF and LOL shit from the tweens that live on it, the concept of short, brief message sent on the fly brings us closer to a global network (sort of like the Borg.....resistance is futile) only with warm and fuzzy smilies and cute characters. Typing the stuff out is never gonig to be easy, but that is why is it so cryptic with short abrievated words (in the future, there will be no vowels). While I use it and can see it's reason for being, I don't think it is ever going to be a bit thing for me.

I agree with the whole texting fiasco. What rea...

2009-07-09T15:52:36.681-04:00

I agree with the whole texting fiasco.

What really sucked was having to ask my 15-year-old where the heck the apostrophe was located.

wow, all i do is text. when people actually call ...

2009-07-07T11:38:07.911-04:00

wow, all i do is text. when people actually call me, i text them back! LOL just got the new EnV3 with the keyboard and i love it.

OMG I would be lost without text. I don't have th...

2009-07-07T09:40:58.688-04:00

OMG I would be lost without text. I don't have the damn time to get on the phone every time I need to tell someone what time to meet for drinks or to ask if I need to bring home milk. A conversation that would have gone off on all sorts of tangents is now short, sweet and to the point.

So, get with the program,,practice makes perfect.

I spend all day at work on the internet. Emails, ...

2009-07-06T10:55:09.812-04:00

I spend all day at work on the internet. Emails, emails, emails. So texting is just another extension of that, to me. :-)

I was like that until I got an iPhone. It made it...

2009-07-05T09:49:46.867-04:00

I was like that until I got an iPhone. It made it easier. Plus, I don't have to actually call my mom every day any more. "Thinking of you" gets me off the hook without actually having to TALK to her for ten minutes about something mind numbing and guilt inducing. ;) It's awesome.

DIRTY TEXT ME!

2009-07-04T22:05:37.887-04:00

DIRTY TEXT ME!

TEXT ME OR NOTHING!

2009-07-04T22:04:51.664-04:00

TEXT ME OR NOTHING!

I'm a text whore. Absolutely. And I've booked you...

2009-07-04T10:27:59.866-04:00

I'm a text whore. Absolutely.

And I've booked you on a flight to Winnipeg for next Tuesday - I need a massage desperately! What with all the text whoring and stuff, I'm pretty sore.

I have never sent a text I would not know how to d...

2009-07-03T14:02:45.685-04:00

I have never sent a text I would not know how to do it. I don't have a mobile phone.
But I hate text message speak anyway, I like the English language too much. My text messages would be huge.

I watched a young girl on a bus yesterday sending a text, I could not believe the speed her thumb was moving, left thumb it was too.

The more you text the better and faster you become...

2009-07-03T10:36:10.287-04:00

The more you text the better and faster you become.

I like to text..saves me money...but sometimes im ...

2009-07-03T09:06:26.438-04:00

I like to text..saves me money...but sometimes im annoyed that people only text and never call

Two words for you "predictive text". You don't hav...

2009-07-03T07:37:23.598-04:00

Two words for you "predictive text". You don't have to press each letter 3 times for the right one to come up. Or is your technology further behind than that of Africa? Oh yeah I forgot - almost every single South African has a mobile phone (and even my grandma can text). Probably because it's such a mission to get a landline installed and they charge so much for the phone calls.

Maybe it's time to change the name to 'Slide's Blo...

2009-07-03T07:19:49.610-04:00

Maybe it's time to change the name to 'Slide's Blog'. Just saying.

Believe it or not, I have serious phone phobia. Ki...

2009-07-03T05:39:33.482-04:00

Believe it or not, I have serious phone phobia. Kinda sucks as a journalist. I take Rescue Remedy before calling my interviewees (and yet, if your bloody Snapvine would let me, I would leave you a message).

Texting, or SMSing as we call it in South Africa, is my preferred means of communicating. If you have to hit one button three times to get 'c', you're obviously not using predictive text, which makes life INFINITELY easier, once you're used to it.

Crikey Slyde! You sound like my Mother!!!! Get a...

2009-07-02T22:37:03.736-04:00

Crikey Slyde! You sound like my Mother!!!! Get a grip man! You really need your nieces to give you a lesson!

1, 2, 3......lets all send Slyde a text message NOW! bahahahahaha

i am a texting freak.. but I also talk someones ea...

2009-07-02T20:05:49.767-04:00

i am a texting freak.. but I also talk someones ear off too.

I don't thing your old and senile.. just don't tell future generations about the dial on the cable box.
Remember... WE were the remote control and we knew just how many dial clicks it took from one channel to another and we'd do it so fast pur parents would yell at us for going too fast

"You'll break the dial." And for the love all all things holy.. do NOT tell anyone that BEFORE cable we only had 3 channels... they'd have you institutionalized!

This merely makes me crush on you even more. I act...

2009-07-02T19:05:34.863-04:00

This merely makes me crush on you even more. I actually have texting TURNED OFF on my phone - and it makes people INSANE that I won't text (or accept them)!
I hate it.

I KNOW! I hate texting. I'd rather talk on the pho...

2009-07-02T17:53:40.138-04:00

I KNOW! I hate texting. I'd rather talk on the phone, IM, email... anything but texting.

And I'm not getting old and senile, so there's no way that you could be.

Got to disagree with you on this one. I am genera...

2009-07-02T17:12:24.982-04:00

Got to disagree with you on this one. I am generally the last holdout when it comes to technology and I even came very late to texting but I absolutely love it. The people I know keep you on the phone for 20 min for the simplest question. I love the brevity of a text.

I totally agree - texting is too time consuming an...

2009-07-02T16:22:24.501-04:00

I totally agree - texting is too time consuming and silly. I had a big long text from a friend - and I just looked at her number and dialed it back! LOL.

I had to get a new cell phone, after having the sa...

2009-07-02T16:10:37.312-04:00

I had to get a new cell phone, after having the same one for 5 years. Got it just days before my 3rd was born, and have used the text crap ONCE to send a bajillion people baby details...weight, whatever. I have not used it since. I totally agree with you on the texting stuff - call me crazy....

I text ALL THE TIME! It is so much cheaper than r...

2009-07-02T16:08:02.508-04:00

I text ALL THE TIME! It is so much cheaper than ringing. I am godsmacked that you don't get it! Hell, even my 70 year old mother texts! And she understands 'text words" like ...
2da, l8r, b4... do you?

In lieu of the massage and bubble bath, can you ju...

2009-07-02T16:00:17.714-04:00

In lieu of the massage and bubble bath, can you just take me for a ride in the G6? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez

Ha! U R old 2 (just like me). I traded in the bla...

2009-07-02T14:41:02.031-04:00

Ha! U R old 2 (just like me). I traded in the blackberry bc the stupid letters were too small and it kept trying to fill in words for me. I have the instinct, which has a qwerty keyboard that you just tap. Still takes me forever though.