Do you text?

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I'm going to check my logs to see, but I'll bet I send/recieve 20 to 30 per day. I use it a lot for work. I also abhor talking on the phone when I don't need to... Texting allows me to communicate with people and avoid the idle chit-chat that makes me crazy. It's my favorite way to communicate other than face-to-face.
 
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Once or twice a week my son will text me from school....any other time he knows I won't reply. He has to call me.
 
Just want to ask a question and not hijack the thread. Do you think because of today's technology that kids and adults also have lost or are losing the ability to communicate with other people face to face.

The reason I ask is I have interviewed alot of people for jobs in the past and it seemed like the younger they were the harder it was for them to communicate and basically sale theirselves during an interview. They looked great on paper, but just couldn't put it in words in a face to face interview. I have noticed that about my own kids and have commented to my wife about it. She is an english teacher and says she see's the same thing. I have seen some of the papers she grades and kids will literally write a paper in text message slang. She hates that with a passion.
 
I wonder what medical problems all the texters will develop with their thumbs 10-20 years from now. Look how many got Carpel Tunnel from typing. I watch people with the dancing thumbs, I tried once but by phone doesn't have big enough keys and having CT doesn't help.
 
I try not to text at all, find it a very non-intuitive excercise.

My daughters and son are a different story however.

One night daughter #2 and her then boyfriend, now husband, were over at our house playing cards, ie a social occasion.

During this game they were texting each other all the time, sitting approx 2 ft away from each other:eek:

I politely asked them to hand over their mobile phones (cell phones to you)!

In case you think these are teens without social skills, you're wrong, they are in their late thirties (second marriage for both)!
 
A very interesting thread , with some excellent points raised . I am of the `Technology is my servant , not my master , generation .`

We are seeing the rise of a new form of addiction , which will have many of the same old associated social costs as other behaviours , with perhaps a new wrinkle or two . Time will allow us to rank it in comparison with other addictions . Unfortunately , the young are the most susceptible to falling prey to these things .

I doubt that many of us would have foreseen the rise of a 20,000 per month habit , or of individuals 2 feet away conversing by text . The first person will be unemployable , and frankly , I wouldn`t want the other two either . The questions now are : How do we prevent more from falling into this hole ? and How do we help those who have fallen in , out ? Better heads than mine will have to answer those questions .
 
Ha....this thread is a dead give away to our average ages !!! Never admit to being old - or at least try to fake it well.

hand crank lathe - motorized lathe - VS lathe - duplicator lathe

stone tablets - pen and quill - telegraph - crank phone - dial phone - push button phone - pager - cell phone - TEXTING - ?????? - I can't wait to see what's next !

Why burn the calories fighting the inevitable? Hop on the train and enjoy the ride :-), it's going to be a blast.
 
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