Cell Phones (cont.)

So in my last post about this topic, I talked about how I never really texted that much.  That's starting to change.

My phone automatically deletes older texts as new ones come in.  It can hold about 600 texts total.  I judge my texting rate by how old the oldest text is in my inbox, or how long it took me to send/receive 600 texts.  That being said...

• At the end of PAC, my range was about 3 months
• In September, when I wrote "Cell Phones", the range was about a month and a half.
• Now, my last 600 texts have been sent over a period of 8 days.

That's pretty drastic.  I am now sending about 5 or 6 times more texts than I was at the start of the school year.  I have started to realize what texting can do.  For all the hype people make about how bad it is that our generation has turned to technology, I am here to present a few facts that I have learned these past few months.

1. Texting does not replace face to face contact, except when face to face contact is not possible anyway (I miss you MS).  It is used in addition to such.  In fact, it can be used to arrange face to face contact, as it did for me at light up night.
2. Texting allows one-on-one conversation.  When you think about it, how often do you really have a one-on-one conversation with people face to face, with absolutely no one else around?  How long did it last?
3. People say things in texts that they won't say in person.  Grown ups assume this is a bad thing, but in my experience it has not been.  Some of the nicest things I have ever been told were told to me over text.
4. There are very little interruptions with text conversation.  It is easier to return to a conversation after a brief break over text than it is when you talk in person.
5. People think about what they say more over texts.  People will put more thought into what they write than what they say out loud.  You can go back and edit what you are going to say before you say it.

It's interesting food for thought.  Granted, most of my texting is with BF and KR, but it's changing.

-NM