It is actually a simple, quick and unobtrusive way to reach people. Less obtrusive than phoning and quicker, generally, than email.
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It is actually a simple, quick and unobtrusive way to reach people. Less obtrusive than phoning and quicker, generally, than email.
+2Texting is convenient for reaching the kids since they use it all the time. I rarely text anyone over 40. It is actually a simple, quick and unobtrusive way to reach people. Less obtrusive than phoning and quicker, generally, than email.
You'll have to show me where I said "boomers are the only generation represented here"...Presumably a narrower range and a higher mean than the general population no? I don't think Gen X or especially Gen Y are well represented here.You think "boomers" are the only generation represented here? Seems to me there are 4 generations that contribute regularly.
2000/2001-Present - New Silent Generation or Generation Z
*1980-2000 - Millennials or Generation Y
*1965-1979 - Generation X
*1946-1964 - Baby Boom
*1925-1945 - Silent Generation
1900-1924 - G.I. Generation
Texting is not my principal method of written communication; that place goes to email. (Did you know that email is now a word on Scrabble?) I regularly text one friend who is 62 and one w*rk colleague in her 50s. I also get text reminders that my Visa bill is ready, which reminds me to log in and set up the payment.
I prefer written communication over phone calls because it can be answered offline when you have had a chance to choose your response. Phone calls can be very disruptive when doing urgent activities. I am a stickler for good grammar and spelling so I am not a rapid texter, and I never texted at all until I got a smartphone with a proper keyboard. I could never deal with the conversion of numbers to letters!
Texting can be really cost effective when you want to communicate quickly with someone abroad about a simple question.
Nords said:I know a mother who has her college kids on a four-hour text-message leash. They dare not leave her texts unanswered, no matter [-]how sober[/-] what activity they might be in the middle of. Ridiculous.
We get an e-mail from our daughter once or twice a month when she has a question or wants a reimbursement. We get a phone call once or twice a semester. She comes home a couple times a year. Otherwise we learn everything we care to know about her from Facebook.
We have a land line phone but we rarely turn on the ringers. I have a pay-as-you-go cell phone, and I only pay for it when I'm on travel. Spouse has used an iPhone for work but has no interest in it for retirement. I get most of my business done via e-mail, but I've been known to send a text message from my PC through the SMS gateway for emergencies.
Everyone else I care to hear from has learned to live with voicemail and e-mail...
I don't get texting. Why would someone want to waste time typing when you can talk to someone? Then again, I don't own a cell phone either.
+2. I resisted years ago, but for short messages it's quicker, less obtrusive and cheaper than phone IMO. I text for short messages, email for longer messages and phone as a last resort. Some text exchanges result in a text, 'can you call me' which is fine if the conversation becomes more involved than expected.It is actually a simple, quick and unobtrusive way to reach people. Less obtrusive than phoning and quicker, generally, than email.
Yes. It's the only thing that gets me a response from our children!
I don't, but we don't have kids either, in which case we probably would.
This reminds me of why people accept new technologies into their daily lives. In the late '90's one of the [-]secretaries[/-] administrative assistants used a desktop PC at work, connected to a noisy dot matrix printer, so that was the context in which she viewed a PC. Her husband wanted to get a computer and put it in the bedroom and she was vehemently opposed to that saying "I will not have that damn thing in my bedroom!"
When she found out she could get email and photos from her grandchildren in Oregon she wanted the computer on her side of the bed.
I look at it as a waste of time because it takes me too long. Just all thumbs as they say. When we got on that plan I once sent a text to my granddaughter that said "LV YA".
NickInLincoln said:This morning on the radio Bob & Tom said that even texting isn't what it was. People are now using their I-phones to surf the web, play games and listen to music. I would have thought it was taking pictures.
I hate the phone and barely use it unless super necessary.
This morning on the radio Bob & Tom said that even texting isn't what it was. People are now using their I-phones to surf the web, play games and listen to music. I would have thought it was taking pictures.
I hate the phone and barely use it unless super necessary.