Sep
Texting
Posted in Me | 9 Comments »I just don’t get it. Is it really necessary? Is anything really that important that you have to TEXT??? I’ve heard all of the arguments. I know what you’ll all say, but why not just pick up the phone and call the person? It takes less time. It’s more personal. If they don’t answer, it’s probably because they are either busy or don’t want to talk to you. Leave a message. They’ll get back to you on their time. Remember 10 years ago when very few people had cell phones and we were all just fine? Sure, sometimes we couldn’t get ahold of people all the time, but we lived through it. Taylor’s all about not having cell phones at all. I’m not willing to go that far because they’re really useful, especially in an emergency, but I use mine for a phone, not a personal texting machine. I understand that texting can be useful at times, but usually when people are holding text conversations, it’s because they are in a place where it is inappropriate to be calling somebody. FYI, that probably means that it’s inappropriate to be texting. And don’t get me started on the whole texting while driving thing. That’s just dumb.
Now that we’ve established how dumb texting is, I also don’t get why every person on the planet expects that every other person who has a cell phone (or a home phone for that matter) has a texting plan. I, for one, don’t. As stated above, I think texting is dumb and I don’t do it, so why would I pay an extra $20/month to get texts from people that I don’t want to get in the first place? I don’t ever text back. It takes WAY too long. I know with practice I could get faster, but I don’t want to. Remember? It’s dumb. It’s much easier to just pick up the phone and call. I wish I could have an automatic text reply to people who text me, but like I said, I have to pay for every. single. text. This may make me sound old and out of the technology loop, but I just don’t get it.




