Text Messaging

[Lorizael]

Err, is that not what I thought you meant?

[Tuberski]

No, i just meant to say that I understand why you need it in this particular circumstance.

ACK!

[Lorizael]

Monkeys. Your posts always confuse me, because your smiley signature causes me to automatically assume that whatever you're saying is a joke, even when your statements are completely toneless and neutral.

[Tuberski]

You'd be suprised about how many inflammatory statements are missed because of the same thing.

ACK!

[Lorizael]

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Tuberski
I should have clarified and said phone to phone.

It bypasses the formalities of calling somebody. Let's say I want to tell my friend Ginormous "I'm big in the sweet sauce pantaloons." If I text her, then I just need to say "I'm big in the sweet sauce pantaloons." However, if I call her, then have to go through the whole formality of "Hello?" "Hey Ginormous, this is loinburger." "Oh, hello, loinburger. What's up?" "I am big in the sweet sauce pantaloons." "Okay." "Talk to you later." "Bye."

[DaShi]

Yeah, I generally prefer texting as well. In China, that's nearly all I ever did on my cellphone. Plus, you don't need to worry, if they don't answer. The message will still be there. And it's less annoying for other people. I'd rather have someone texting next to me than have to listen to his loud boring conversation.

[duke o' york]

Texts cost 12p (in Yookay money), when all you want to say is "Meet me at the pub at 7.30", whereas when you ring someone then you'll end up spending more than that, and run the risk of spoiling the big topics of conversation when you arrive at the aforementioned pub, and end up staring at hotties all night (again, but with no conversation to make it less obvious).

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by duke o' york
Texts cost 12p (in Yookay money), when all you want to say is "Meet me at the pub at 7.30", whereas when you ring someone then you'll end up spending more than that, and run the risk of spoiling the big topics of conversation when you arrive at the aforementioned pub, and end up staring at hotties all night (again, but with no conversation to make it less obvious).

Nah, the combined price of "meet me at the pub" and the "OK" answer far outweights a short phone call, and thats without the initial recipitant asking "what time" and forcing another round of texts.

[Lorizael]

I pay a monthly fee of 5 USD to get unlimited text messages, because otherwise I'd go bankrupt.

[loinburger]

A rather specific problem that text messaging addresses is that my friend has difficulty hearing voices in an extremely low register, and I have an extremely deep voice, so telephone conversations always last four times as long because I keep having to repeat myself. It's not as much of a problem when we're speaking face to face because she's pretty decent at reading lips.

[Az]

what's the problem of cross network SMS? you don't have it in the states?

[Lorizael]

We do, but apparently not online.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Lorizael
First thing I did. Sprint only seems to want to be able to send text messages to other Sprint (and Nextel) phones.

No way! That's so arse backwards.