Teenage girls must account for a significant portion of the economy: texting, twilight, the bieber...

Gotta get this out of the way...

My daughter is in the 100s of texts per month.

My son is in the 1000s, but then, most of those are from girls.

treecologist: My daughter is in the 100s of texts per month.

My son is in the 1000s, but then, most of those are from girls.

My man needs to pare down those numbers. It's quality, not quantity.

I text quite a bit, too. For a quick question, it is a lot easier than to call that person, go through the "hi how are you" and then get around to what you are calling about. Not to mention I am not much of a phone person, anyway. I am one of those loonies who has low minutes but unlimited texting. Works well.

Anastacya: I text quite a bit, too. For a quick question, it is a lot easier than to call that person, go through the "hi how are you" and then get around to what you are calling about. Not to mention I am not much of a phone person, anyway. I am one of those loonies who has low minutes but unlimited texting. Works well.

Son of a biatch, THIS! Most of my phone use is texting too.

Most of my friends use gtalk or whatever google's talk service is. My phone is an android. If I'm at my computer, messages go to my computer. If I'm afk, they go to my phone. I'm pretty sure those count as text messages. Probably pushes my numbers up a lot.

OMG! Kids are using technology to communicate! It isn't how it was in the old days. Those darn kids.


/get off my lawn
//I'm keeping this ball

I can think of better ways for teenage girls to get carpal tunnel syndrome.

Honest Bender: Most of my friends use gtalk or whatever google's talk service is. My phone is an android. If I'm at my computer, messages go to my computer. If I'm afk, they go to my phone. I'm pretty sure those count as text messages. Probably pushes my numbers up a lot.

Probably not. IM on a smartphone typically uses the data connection for sending messages not SMS. As far as I know only the old featurephones used text to deliver IM to the phone.

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Mad_Radhu: Honest Bender: Most of my friends use gtalk or whatever google's talk service is. My phone is an android. If I'm at my computer, messages go to my computer. If I'm afk, they go to my phone. I'm pretty sure those count as text messages. Probably pushes my numbers up a lot.

Probably not. IM on a smartphone typically uses the data connection for sending messages not SMS. As far as I know only the old featurephones used text to deliver IM to the phone.

Honestly, I just assume that they still count them towards my texts'. When dealing with phone companies, I always assume the worst.

Anastacya: I text quite a bit, too. For a quick question, it is a lot easier than to call that person, go through the "hi how are you" and then get around to what you are calling about. Not to mention I am not much of a phone person, anyway. I am one of those loonies who has low minutes but unlimited texting. Works well.

Are you from.... The future?????

/Please tell us more about how unique it to replace talking with texting in the future...

/In the yearrrrr two-thhhhhhoooouuuussssaaannnnndddd!!!

I was pretty much anti-texting until I got a phone with a qwerty keyboard a few years back. Now I text all the time.

Texting is useful for two things:
1) People who can't be bothered (people at work, for instance) and you want to give them a message without an annoying ringtone/vibration going off.
2) Wanting to give the same message to lots of people all at once.

Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap.

/Yap.
//Yap.

I just got my first smartphone on Wednesday afternoon
I just got my second smartphone on Friday morning

/first one was DOA

Prior to this, I used an old school LG clamshell phone (LG-8600, rock solid and had good voice quality, I had text messaging turned off on that phone because I considered it a ripoff).

Sadly, that phone is 5+ years old and it's impossible to find batteries now.

Plus, I got used to android because of my hacked nook.

So far, not really impressed with smart phones, we will see where it goes.

/I work for a major player in the cell industry, our chips are probably in your phone and your tablet.

/Plus, it's hard to date women these days if you don't have texting capabilities.

/The funny thing is, the only thing I was a luddite about was cell phones, I have all of this other tech (a tablet, a netbook, dual screens on my desktop, etc) but my cell was old school. I guess I just never grew up in that generation.

Honest Bender : Honestly, I just assume that they still count them towards my texts'. When dealing with phone companies, I always assume the worst.

Google voice uses the data connection, the provider is not even in the picture there.

/Google voice caps you to about ~120 messages per day.

/I have Google voice on my hacked nook, it does not have cellular capabilities (and hence, no cell carrier). So I can only text from it via wifi.

/now I have a phone with unlimited text, I give the Google voice number to ... undesirables. Because it's easier to block stuff that goes through Google :D

lordargent: The funny thing is, the only thing I was a luddite about was cell phones, I have all of this other tech (a tablet, a netbook, dual screens on my desktop, etc) but my cell was old school. I guess I just never grew up in that generation.

Heh. I have a Samsung B-2710. It's waterproof, dust proof, shock-resistant, scratch-resistant, etc. It's about as bulletproof as a phone could be. About $150 or so at Amazon, unlocked.

I use it for calling and for the occasional text. It's simple, rugged, and reliable. While it technically has a web browser some basic baked-in features like Google Maps and Facebook, I never use them.

It's good at what it's designed to be. My netbook is great for having a long battery life and good for day-to-day web browsing (though I abuse it with MATLAB on occasion). My desktop is great at high-performance stuff. I don't want a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none device.

/also, smartphone plans in Switzerland are expensive

whither_apophis: Teenage girls must account for a significant portion of the economy: texting, twilight, the bieber...



/Yeah, I probably could have found a hotlink without cartoon uniporn

lordargent: I just got my first smartphone on Wednesday afternoon
I just got my second smartphone on Friday morning

/first one was DOA

Prior to this, I used an old school LG clamshell phone (LG-8600, rock solid and had good voice quality, I had text messaging turned off on that phone because I considered it a ripoff).

Sadly, that phone is 5+ years old and it's impossible to find batteries now.

Plus, I got used to android because of my hacked nook.

So far, not really impressed with smart phones, we will see where it goes.

/I work for a major player in the cell industry, our chips are probably in your phone and your tablet.

/Plus, it's hard to date women these days if you don't have texting capabilities.

/The funny thing is, the only thing I was a luddite about was cell phones, I have all of this other tech (a tablet, a netbook, dual screens on my desktop, etc) but my cell was old school. I guess I just never grew up in that generation.

It's a generational thing...gf's daughter loves having Internet on her phone. GF and I just want the damn phone part to work reliably.

and probably 4 properly spelled words in those 4000 messages. kids today can't spell for shiat.

That's 4000 per hour, right?

What amazes me is teenage girls will text each other when they are sitting right next to each other. Probably to gossip about the third girl with them,. "omg shes such a slut"

06wildcat: lordargent: I just got my first smartphone on Wednesday afternoon
I just got my second smartphone on Friday morning

/first one was DOA

Prior to this, I used an old school LG clamshell phone (LG-8600, rock solid and had good voice quality, I had text messaging turned off on that phone because I considered it a ripoff).

Sadly, that phone is 5+ years old and it's impossible to find batteries now.

Plus, I got used to android because of my hacked nook.

So far, not really impressed with smart phones, we will see where it goes.

/I work for a major player in the cell industry, our chips are probably in your phone and your tablet.

/Plus, it's hard to date women these days if you don't have texting capabilities.

/The funny thing is, the only thing I was a luddite about was cell phones, I have all of this other tech (a tablet, a netbook, dual screens on my desktop, etc) but my cell was old school. I guess I just never grew up in that generation.

It's a generational thing...gf's daughter loves having Internet on her phone. GF and I just want the damn phone part to work reliably.

"Internet" on a cell phone is like Guernica on a postage stamp. It isn't.

/squint
//squint squint

That being an average I can only imagine what the high numbers are to offset the large group that only sends a few.

I probably average a hundred or so a month. Don't have all that many people to text. But, I like texts because they're short and quick. Also, when I or someone in texting is in the mountains riding around the text will go through whenever they get signal.

Well, I can certainly say I wasn't expecting to see lesbian unicorns engaged in rimming when I opened this thread.

WoodyHayes: Well, I can certainly say I wasn't expecting to see lesbian unicorns engaged in rimming when I opened this thread.


You're welcome?

Huh. That would explain the pain in my wrist. Cuz I was thinking it might be something else.

Hot

namatad: meh who cares

People with an education.

/Was a tech writer in a previous job. Which is why I'm a bad texter, the thought of sending out a message riddled with typos and misspellings drives me batty and I have to correct it before sending a text.

/These days, typos and misspellings in code causes compile errors and other confusion. And I'm the guy that does the code reviews.

/friggin DBAs spelling column names incorrectly, now it's too much work to correct it and everyone that has to query that table has to intentionally spell the column name incorrectly.

I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: Anastacya: I text quite a bit, too. For a quick question, it is a lot easier than to call that person, go through the "hi how are you" and then get around to what you are calling about. Not to mention I am not much of a phone person, anyway. I am one of those loonies who has low minutes but unlimited texting. Works well.

Are you from.... The future?????

/Please tell us more about how unique it to replace talking with texting in the future...

/In the yearrrrr two-thhhhhhoooouuuussssaaannnnndddd!!!

So what? Having something in common with the story