Texting

You are going to want to avoid this post if you don't like cussing, because this subject stirs something inside of me that I can't control.

Everywhere you go, you see someone with a cell phone in their hand "texting" someone else. Texting, for those of you who may have been living in caves for about 10 years is how everyone loves to communicate these days. Texting is DUMB.

Sure, there are SOME uses for texting. For instance, if you are running late somewhere and you want to let the person know so. You can shoot a quick message "I'm running late" to them. That's where the usefulness of texting ends and the dumb use of it begins.

People don't just use texting for short quick messages. Texting is used for entire conversations. The stupid part of this is that these conversations are typed on a CELL PHONE. Cell phones themselves are superior technology. You can actually communicate much faster by talking and listening.

What's worse, in many cases where people are using text messages, if they had just called the person they would have saved money. Calling can be free in the evenings and weekends. It can also be free between two people of the same carrier. Texting however still costs money. People will pay upwards to $60 per month for a text plan.

If that sounds reasonable, remember that before texting and even before everyone had cell phones, there were these things call two-way alphanumeric pagers. They were basically just pagers you could text back and forth on. They weren't very popular compared to texting today which doesn't make much sense considering they were exactly the same thing. The big difference: two-way paging cost us around 9 bucks per month back then.

It's like people are working in reverse these days. Twitter and facebook are other examples. IRC is still much more efficient that twitter and it has less spammers. It is superior in many ways. Calling someone and talking to them is FAR superior to texting any day.