How many of you text message? It's a great way of not communicating.
As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being.
I like to speak to my family in person. I get a bad rap because I don't use my phone enough to talk to them, but I do love talking in person, and I don't mind FaceTime, but actually, like, calling and texting, not too big on that.
I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.
Spurred by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Company - almost 80 messages a day, more than double the average of a year earlier.
I don't mind if somebody texts me but I'm not a big texter, the things are too small. I don't mind if they text, '7 o'clock,' that's fine, that's logistics but, 'What's up?' Get real! Pick up a phone!
Good. If you checked your e-mail every five minutes, or keep texting and Tweeting in the middle of our conversation, I might snap your neck out of sheer principle.
If you are active online or texting, there is a good chance I could look at what you do and know more about you than your family.
I've never seen anything like the way some young people behave. They go out on a date, and they're sitting opposite each other at a table, and they're not looking at each other, and they text each other as though they're deaf-mutes. It's insane.
People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.
Why is it suddenly uncool to spell? That's all I want to know.
People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone with one thumb, for instance.
Adele texts me all the time and keeps me in check.
The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.
There is some argument about who actually invented text messaging, but I think it's safe to say it was a man. Multiple studies have shown that the average man uses about half as many words per day as women, thus text messaging. It eliminates hellos and goodbyes and cuts right to the chase.
Short answers seem like you don't care even if you are trying to answer. I get the same flack for my short texting.
I do text a lot. Sometimes, at night, my thumbs hurt because I've texted so much, so I definitely text too much.
Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.
I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.
You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.
I am always texting!
No sooner my kids leave their friends than they start texting them. And it's all in code in a language I totally don't understand.
I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word 'YOU' and I just put the letter 'U'.
Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.
