No, I don’t
Though I have discovered why I don’t. Seems it’s more conducive to those who text. I’m not a big texting sort of guy. Because, like Billy once said, texting is like trying to start a fire by rubbing two lighters together.
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May 14th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
I recall an episode in the mid-80’s, when I had my Atari 800 connected to a 128 baud modem. It was my first computer telecom experience, and I thought it wzs just too cool. My father was visiting and watching. Here I am banging about little bits of text and shooting them across the county to another guy with a direct connection. We’re shipping about a half a sentence a minute back & forth to each other.
I’m thinking, “How cool is this?”
My father — who, incidentally, was in encrypted communications in the Air Force — queered the whole deal by simply asking, “But… look at what you’re actually getting done in terms of communications. Why don’t you just log-off and call the guy?”
There was no way around the logic.
May 14th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
I had often mocked my friends who have attempted to text me, only to discover that not only do I NOT read texts, I refuse to respond to them (having not read them in most cases to begin with). I would say “DO NOT TELETYPE ME. THE SIXTIES ARE OVER!!! This is a cellular phone, used to convey audio messages, not incoherent abbreviated nonsense!!!” I later discovered that most of my friends, who are also in their 20’s, have never heard of a Tele-type machine and don’t know what I’m talking about.
May 14th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
ah, the comment line reminds me of the good old days, still in college and broke as heck, but hell-bent on taking a 10-day, thousand plus mile road trip.
Being broke, and wanting to “journal” the trip (well ahead of the curve, in actuality I was blogging on the road) I took the only thing I had at the time suitable; a nice Zenith supersport running a blistering 8mhz with a 10Mb internal drive, DOS, and a lovely cast-off 2400 baud external modem.
And it worked. Fantastically, even… I found a DOS software suite that did everything for me, even Lynx-like web access, IRC, POP email, gopher, etc. I still have the ancient web page around somewhere with the text up.
Dr. Strangegun, licensed nerd.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:42 am
Look at it this way:
Buy your mother in law a blackberry with texting package.
She no longer calls but now texts short messages.
No more 20 minute conversations you never wanted to have.
😀
May 16th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
The majority of twitter users do not use a cell phone. They use the website or a free third party program. So if you can type on your computer then you can use twitter.