To text or not to text

[Hobbitess Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Hobbitess]

I have a cheap phone with the bottom rung calling plan, no data, no texting. I don't need more than that. ymmv

Ditto, but generally I'm near the computer or have hubby or eldest son around to text for me, so not a big deal. We've been using e-mail for text sort of messages for years anyhow -- hubby, son and I all check our e-mails (at least the ones with use with each other) right regular; add in middle daughter (who doesn't text) and that's everyone I'm likely to want to contact immediately.

I have been thinking about getting a phone with text ability, though, because sometimes when we're traveling (especially in big parks like those at WDW or SeaWorld), the phones get through with text immediately everywhere but are less reliable when it comes to calling. That's also when I'm least likely to have hubby or eldest son around (eldest son likes to do the parks alone, thanks, while hubby and I tend to meet only for meals to touch base before separating again). Part of me thinks that, if I keep stalling, could be regular phone reception improves enough changing over won't be necessary. Then again, texts don't pick up crowd noises, so could still be the better deal in those situations. Waffle, waffle...

[mkarizona Member Find all posts View Profile Close mkarizona]

Back several decades I'm sure people had conversations about whether to stick with telegraph or use that new-fangled telephone thing. I'm guessing the people who say they won't text today are the same who would have stuck w/ the telegraph back then...

Kurt

Priceless!! In my family all dinner, party, etc. invitations are sent by group text. We sometimes forget those who don't text. It is not uncommon for my husband's 90 yr old parents to get a call a couple of hours before an event because nobody remembered to call them on their (house) phone. i just have to remember what time the grandkids get out of school in case they don't have their phones on vibrate.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Think an iphone is private?

google tansee

[Icc5 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Icc5]

Texting

I bought a smartphone in June and have been texting since. Couldn't keep in tough with my 27 and 21 year old kids without it. It is quick and easy for them so I stay in contact much more and actually do get messages about what is going on in their world.
Bart

[billymach4 Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close billymach4]

Me... I am the Anti Text.

If you need me call me!

[PigsDad Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close PigsDad]

Think an iphone is private?

google tansee

So Tansee is a product you can buy for transferring data to and from your iPod/iPhone to your PC. What does this have to do with why one should or should not text (the topic of this thread)? Please enlighten us!

Kurt

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

So Tansee is a product you can buy for transferring data to and from your iPod/iPhone to your PC. What does this have to do with why one should or should not text (the topic of this thread)? Please enlighten us!

Kurt

Us?

Most of what I say goes right past you anyway.

But, just for the yucks, not that trying to explain things ever pans out with you, let's say you just happen to wind up with someone's iphone who has been doing things of a questionable legal nature, and thought that the jillions of messages (well, 200) they have with their co-conspirators were secure.

Or, let's say your ex has been badgering you about child support, texting you nastygrams.

Or, let's say your spouse has been fooling around with TonyG, and they have been sexting each other.

Or . . .

Oh, never mind.

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

Us?

Most of what I say goes right past you anyway.

But, just for the yucks, not that trying to explain things ever pans out with you, let's say you just happen to wind up with someone's iphone who has been doing things of a questionable legal nature, and thought that the jillions of messages (well, 200) they have with their co-conspirators were secure.

Or, let's say you ex has been badgering you about child support, texting you nastygrams.

Or, let's say your spouse has been fooling around with TonyG, and they have been sexting each other.

Or . . .

Oh, never mind.

This is true of any cell phone texting product. They can retrieve it just as they can what we post elsewhere. Big Brother is watching. Just as they have traffic light cams for traffic infractions. One of these days I am sure to get a speeding ticket because they will check when I went through one EZPass toll booth and through another before I should have if doing the posted speed limit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSbSueq_KSY

[Hobbitess Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Hobbitess]

One of these days I am sure to get a speeding ticket because they will check when I went through one EZPass toll booth and through another before I should have if doing the posted speed limit.

I've been waiting for them to pull that, too. But once they do, I figure we'll just start scheduling our trips so hubby's driving on all the toll roads. He doesn't speed half as badly as I do.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Me... I am the Anti Text.

If you need me call me!

I don't have your number.

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

I don't speed, I drive "with traffic".

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

This is true of any cell phone texting product. They can retrieve it just as they can what we post elsewhere.

Funny how they don't seem to know that, at least AT&T and law enforcement as of yesterday.

Actually, law enforcement put me on to tansee, he saying it couldn't be done first, that they just have to confiscate the phone, and preserve it, if they want to use the text messages as evidence, then, googling, he told me to look into tansee, the first he had heard of it.

Yeah, I'm working on something.

Anyway, the point I'm taking to make, trying to make, trying to make, trying to make, trying to make, is that texting is just one more version of the written word, something lawyers do everything they can to avoid doing.

Wonder why that is?

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

One of these days I am sure to get a speeding ticket because they will check when I went through one EZPass toll booth and through another before I should have if doing the posted speed limit.

If you hadn't noticed, the Big Rigs already have that, those electronic detection systems that allow them to go on by the chicken coops, except that they are also logging the trucks' activity . . . speed, hours, etc.

It catches them, sorta like the written word.

Hey, from now on can I just phone this in?

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Oh yeah, when I get pulled over, and the cop says, "I spose you know why I stopped you?," I say, "Yeah, I'm the only one you could catch."

[JWC Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close JWC]

not for me.

The expectations of others that I be instantly reachable is already annoying. I do not carry my phone around unless I have a need for it. it's for my convenience, not the convenience of others.

for the longest time, I woudln't give my mother my cell # as when I had a work cell, she'd call to chat or saw something on tv that she thought I'd like, etc. She got mad when she found out I had a pers phone and didn't tell her, so I explained why that was. During the day, I work, I'm not interested in frivilous conversations in any format and certainly not of the disruptive sort. send me an email and I'll deal with it later.

I'm not going to leave myself open for "hey, I texted you and you didn't text back!" and am going as gadget-free as I can be. also happens to be much more economical that way.

I have a cheap phone with the bottom rung calling plan, no data, no texting. I don't need more than that. ymmv

We feel exactly the same as you do. Our kids know how to reach us and they are the only people that need to know.