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Those of you who text a lot...
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Hmmm.... I've saved all of my text conversations with my little sister since September but I haven't gotten anything. There must be around at least 5,000 or more messages.
Interesting....
Interesting....
How is it possible to send 4,000 - 8,000 - 14,000 texts in a month?
For 8000 texts, thats a text every 2 minutes, nonstop, for 10 hours a day, without stopping, right through a month.
How is it possible to send 4,000 - 8,000 - 14,000 texts in a month?
For 8000 texts, thats a text every 2 minutes, nonstop, for 10 hours a day, without stopping, right through a month.
I send about 12000-18000 a month. I'm up 14 hours a day, and pretty much while I'm not at work, I'm always texting. I send and receive about 750 a day. Which really is only 50 an hour, which goes by pretty quick. At 750 a day I could send more that 23000 messages a month.
It does when it's put that way I suppose. I too burn through a few hundred texts a day. I think a lot of it comes with age- I'm 16.
Whoa !!
I have found this thread to be somewhat fascinating. I can't believe any of you, who text that much, have time to eat, sleep or sh*t !!
I'm completely amazed...and I understand with send and receive, 8000 means it could be around 4000 sent...give or take a few hundred. When I bought my iPhone I signed up for the 200 texts a month.... and have gone over that limit once... Holy cow, my head is spinning from those numbers... just staggering.
And I totally get wanting to save them as well... kind of like why you keep and organize all your e-mails... there's lots of information out there we might need to retrieve one day....
Ahhh, how did we ever survive before this thing called technology came along?
I have found this thread to be somewhat fascinating.
I can't believe any of you, who text that much, have time to eat, sleep or sh*t !! I'm completely amazed...and I understand with send and receive, 8000 means it could be around 4000 sent...give or take a few hundred. When I bought my iPhone I signed up for the 200 texts a month.... and have gone over that limit once... Holy cow, my head is spinning from those numbers... just staggering.
And I totally get wanting to save them as well... kind of like why you keep and organize all your e-mails... there's lots of information out there we might need to retrieve one day....
Ahhh, how did we ever survive before this thing called technology came along?
187 according to PhoneView. I have my iPhone since October 2008. With my iPhone contract I have included 100 texts (called SMS here) free/month (Europe-wide—and that's something special). It seems that texts are free in the states, doesn't it? Here they cost up to ten eurocent for ONE (in your own country, others more) if you don't have a free contingent.
what is the point of storing over 100,000 texts?
so you can read your conversations later like "the Never-Ending Story" ?
sorry but i delete my texts every day or so... or if its important, keep it for a bit until the task has been completed or whatever reason i was storing it for is no longer needed.
what is so important that you need to save 100,000 texts? seriously?
so you can read your conversations later like "the Never-Ending Story" ?
sorry but i delete my texts every day or so... or if its important, keep it for a bit until the task has been completed or whatever reason i was storing it for is no longer needed.
what is so important that you need to save 100,000 texts? seriously?
If you're 16, you should be in school. So are you texting in school like the kids that my wife teaches attempt to do? It's no wonder that American kids can't read or spell anything correctly. If you don't, which I'd doubt, it'd be near impossible to text that much in a month and sleep.
I don't understand the younger generation, and at 24, I still consider myself pretty young. I only use texts like email. I send someone something when I know someone can't talk, when it doesn't need much of a response, when I don't want to talk, or when either party can't hear—like at a concert or something. Why bother texting someone if you're going to have a full on conversation? You guys do know these things are phones too, right?
In most cases I'd rather use the internet to find out info than pick up a phone, but I don't have a problem calling my friends. I think that's the disease of my generation. But then again, I still played outside when I was a kid and didn't have a cell phone until I needed it—when I started driving. I can't imagine what it'll be like when I tell my kids that I didn't have a cell phone until I was 16 and we didn't have a computer or Nintendo until I was like 7. Though we did have an Atari, with E.T.—the worst game ever—but I digress. I don't think I'm going to give my kids a phone that young. What 5 year old needs a cell phone? They can barely communicate, who would they need to call?
Maybe I'm in the minority? I've probably had about 100 texts on my phone since I got it in June. Of course now someone's texting me back because I tried that *go() thing on him and it didn't work. Before that I had 75 text messages on my phone. Adding about 25 or so for the ones I've deleted and that's about 100—total of sent and received! I try to keep my conversations short though because I don't waste money on texts or text plans.
Why don't people just talk to each other anymore? I guess I went through that phase. I used to be a huge AIM user until I realized how much time I wasted. But I was in high school and college then. I dropped that when I realized that I was tethered to the computer from 7pm to 7am.
I'm with d wade, why bother saving that many texts? Texts seem to be generally ephemeral conversation. The only reason to use it is for something in the moment. You don't see business people texting people specs for things to their employees. At least my clients don't text me specs for my design/animation work.
I only read the first three sentences, but I have a 4.0GPA. FWIW.
But yes, I do text in class...not going to lie. My parents even text me during the school day.
I am 21 now and when I was younger, mostly in high-school I would text 100 to 200 text a day. It was easy when you were not allowed to talk in class, and often your friends were not in the same class as you. It is different as I am older now, my friends are generally at work, or in college and don't bother texting during class... So I agree that it does come with age, before I could not imagine sitting through a class in high-school without my phone, now I often leave my iphone in my car during classes.
*imagine i used to text that much before the QWERTY keypad phones had really came out..
*imagine i used to text that much before the QWERTY keypad phones had really came out..
For those of you who are texting so much, have you considered the health implications?
First, your eyesight. If you spend so much time focusing on a small iPhone screen that is only 18 inches or so away from your eyes, it can't be a good thing.
And second, your overall lack of exercise. Maybe take an hourlong break from texting and go outside to walk or jog. It will make a world of difference, both physically and mentally.
The more you take care of yourself today, the more likely you'll be around to enjoy the techology of tomorrow
First, your eyesight. If you spend so much time focusing on a small iPhone screen that is only 18 inches or so away from your eyes, it can't be a good thing.
And second, your overall lack of exercise. Maybe take an hourlong break from texting and go outside to walk or jog. It will make a world of difference, both physically and mentally.
The more you take care of yourself today, the more likely you'll be around to enjoy the techology of tomorrow
Why on earth would you need to save 20,000 texts?
I dont keep count but once my text pages get cluttered i just clear them. Does me no good sitting there if they are days old.
A 4.0 GPA with ADHD? Impressive! I kid. I know I can be long winded.
I don't take much stock in GPAs. They show work, not intelligence. I'd be in Mensa if I wanted to pay them any money yet I never had a 4.0. Why? I often didn't do homework because I didn't need to. Granted I did have around a 3.7AGPA (Honors and AP factored in and religion factored out).
It's pretty sad that your parents text you while you're in school. I guess it's definitely true when they say blame the parents.
zync... no. I'm 15 and I have only a RAZR phone (that i can type on about as fast as i can on my iPod touch) but i send tons of texts. I text during class and i really don't see anything wrong with it. I have a 4.0 GPA as well and i always do my homework and study and read books and everything to get good grades. I just text in class when there is nothing going on like when we're watching a movie or when I'm done working on an in-class assignment or when the teacher goes out of the room. I've also heard some of the media claim that they don't want kids texting in class because they don't want them sharing answers with one another... I don't know about other schools, but I am one of the smartest students in my class and I have never had someone text me for an answer on something. (why waste the time and effort texting when you can use sign-language or whispers?
)also, i think this is just a generational trend, but I never talk to friends on the phone now that texting has been around. In 7th and 8th grade I would do it all the time on the home phone, but a few years and a phone with a texting plan and -1 landline later, i never get calls anymore. I like texting much better though - it's less obtrusive and it's actually kind of fun.
I tutor after schools at a school with K-2nd grade, and i have yet to see or hear of anyone in the school with a cell phone. However, next week i start tutoring at a 3-5 grade school and I'm sure there'll be some with phones. I agree that young children don't really need cell phones, but once all their friends start getting them they're going to want one so they can talk to them, and just because it's just the cool thing to have one. I didn't get my phone until November 2008 and I know that when all your friends have a phone and you don't, you really feel left in the dark and you never talk. If you do give your child a phone at a younger age, I recommend reading his/her texts once in a while, just so he/she knows not to do anything stupid
You're not in the norm, at least not compared to the school my wife teaches at. She teaches art and has to constantly take away phones from kids while she's teaching and while they're supposed to be working. Texting when there's nothing going on is one thing, doing it when the teacher is teaching is another. When I was in high school there were a few kids that would actually text during a lecture. At my school they were lucky to not be found out.
I've also heard some of the media claim that they don't want kids texting in class because they don't want them sharing answers with one another... I don't know about other schools, but I am one of the smartest students in my class and I have never had someone text me for an answer on something. (why waste the time and effort texting when you can use sign-language or whispers?
That's just a scare tactic to get parents outraged about it. Unfortunately, from what I hear about it from my wife, the parents don't really care anyway. Many of them are the reasons why kids are texting. Though, that's a little skewed. My wife works in a school where most students live in low-income housing—of course they have money for blackberries some how. I suppose that's how they're able to text each other, because it's not like it's allowed at most jobs.
My wife was telling me that one girl was getting a text from her mom telling her that she'd be picked up in about 5 minutes for a dentist appointment. The parents know that that kind of thing is not allowed, and that when you get there you tell the office and they handle it, but instead they do stupid stuff like that. Instead of the girl packing up when she's notified to leave, she sits there for an extra 10-15 minutes texting and not working anyway. That's the type of stuff I'm talking about.
Maybe it's just me but I've never found it fun. I've always found it bothersome and tedious, even on a QWERTY phone. Then again, I always refused to use shorthand. I use lol. That's it. Though I suppose haha would be faster on a non-QWERTY phone.
It's definitely something that splits our generations—I wonder why that is exactly. However, there are a few people that I know that text all the time. I just find it annoying. Why would someone want to go to dinner or something and then text someone else the entire time?
I also don't get what you guys are talking about that is so important that it has to be done during class. It seems to be something to do with instant gratification to me. You grew up with technology way more than I did, so you're used to doing things quickly. When I was a kid we still used encyclopedias for reports. When I was in high school, we waiting until class was over and talked in the hallway for a few minutes, or met up with friends at lunch and talked about all of the things that happened in class, or what was going on today or this weekend.
It seems to me that it's not only a generational shift, but also a shift in thinking as well. I was telling my wife a few months ago that because of the internet and technology it is no longer important to know information. It's important to know how to find information. Why do I need to remember that Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941 when I can wikipedia Pearl Harbor or WWII and find out? Technology like that is amazing and definitely useful, but I think that it's also making us stupid to a certain degree. Why bother remembering when I can just use my iPhone? We rely on it a little too much.
When I leave the house and forget my iPhone I always immediately think, what happens if I get into an accident, my car dies, or I miss an important call!? And then I always think, how many times have I driven in a car and needed that kind of help? How many times have I been in a car without a cell phone? Oh yeah, it's no big deal. People can use voicemail. I can't imagine what a 16 year old in that same situation would think because you guys grew up with cell phones. Although now you'd probably be screwed because there aren't many payphones left
But anyone who happens upon you will have a cell phone!I tutor after schools at a school with K-2nd grade, and i have yet to see or hear of anyone in the school with a cell phone. However, next week i start tutoring at a 3-5 grade school and I'm sure there'll be some with phones. I agree that young children don't really need cell phones, but once all their friends start getting them they're going to want one so they can talk to them, and just because it's just the cool thing to have one. I didn't get my phone until November 2008 and I know that when all your friends have a phone and you don't, you really feel left in the dark and you never talk. If you do give your child a phone at a younger age, I recommend reading his/her texts once in a while, just so he/she knows not to do anything stupid
I know what it's like to not have things when everyone else does, so I definitely understand that. Like I said, I didn't have a Nintendo for the first few years it was out. I went to a private school where many kids had really expensive cars. In the lot BMWs were as common as Honda Civics were on the road. I bought my car and paid for everything. These guys were just given cars and free gas.
By the time I have kids, cell phones might not even exist anymore
OK, maybe not, but by the time they're old enough for a phone there might be some other revolutionary computer device. That's at least a decade away.I wouldn't read their messages. I'd trust them unless they proved otherwise untrustworthy. I'd hope I'd have instilled enough smarts in them to not do anything too retarded.
now i see why you nutcases have 100,000 texts saved up.
look at your posts... they're freaking epic novels!
keep it simple. less is more.
and PS...
it's not like it's important... there's just no need to bog down my phone for conversations i had 3 months ago. i save texts that are important to me at the time for as long as i need them. i dont need to save the conversation i had with my friend about organizing a poker game from july of 07
look at your posts... they're freaking epic novels!
keep it simple. less is more.
and PS...
it's not like it's important... there's just no need to bog down my phone for conversations i had 3 months ago. i save texts that are important to me at the time for as long as i need them. i dont need to save the conversation i had with my friend about organizing a poker game from july of 07
You're right! No wonder why I never text! I write too much.
There's nothing wrong with having a discussion.
for someone who uses the keyboard A LOT..
you should at least comprehend the reason it's called a QWERTY keyboard.. not QUERTY.
the reason is, the keys appear in this order.
Q-W-E-R-T-Y
not too difficult i didn't think...