Anybody else NOT text???

[chloelovesdisney]

I don't text except on very rare occasions, maybe a total of 5 times a year. If someone sends me a text I don't respond, most of my friends/family know better by now and just call me.

 

[Pembo]

We pay per text so no we don't text!

 

[NotUrsula]

No, I don't and it took me several attempts to get my cell provider to turn off the feature, since apparently texts would come in and we'd get charged. I just got a new phone and when it was activated, they deactivated everything but the phone function....no texts, no picture mail, no data. I had some friends that just didn't understand the utter futility of sending texts to a blind lady and they now call or email if they need something. DH on the other hand has his Blackberry with the data and mail....works for him but it's not for me.

See, that's the thing. With me it is the opposite situation: I'm hard-of-hearing, so text is actually rather more useful for me. I'm not fast at it at all, but I do more incoming than outgoing, so my slowness isn't a problem. For a straightforward message I would MUCH rather read it than have to climb through a not-always-clearly-audible phone tree to find it.

My phone provider can differentiate between broadcast texts and single-sender texts, and I have the broadcast category blocked out unless I have the sender on my approved list. (My bank's fraud department, for instance, is on my approved list.) This lets me block all those "surprise" texts while still receiving the legitimate ones that matter to me.

BTW, for those folks who don't like reading/sending texts on a phone. Every single phone vendor has a customer email domain, and you can always send email to it as a text message, even if you don't have a data plan. I tend to do this whenever possible when sending a text message, because I can do it on my computer rather than on the phone, and for me that is much quicker. For example, I have a Virgin Mobile phone with no data plan: to send an email as a text message to it, you would just send the email to 2025553456@vmobl.com (obviously, that's not a real phone number, but you see how it works.) If you prefer to handle your texts via computer, just find out what the domain is for your phone provider.

 

[ratherbeatdisney]

I don't want my family calling me at work unless it's an emergency, but if there is something they need to tell me during my work hours they just text me and I get the text as soon as I get off work. Makes life much easier for the little things, like "please stop at Walmart and bring home soda!"

EXACTLY !!! i dont know how ANYONE could think that spending the time to call someone for something so simple as that is worth it, especially if you are disrupting someone at work. my text plan has unlimitted texts for $5 a month. that is nothing to me for what i get out of it. my fiance probably has 30 texts a day from friends on a good day. i know FAR more people who Do use texts than dont.

 

[LisaR]

EXACTLY !!! i dont know how ANYONE could think that spending the time to call someone for something so simple as that is worth it, especially if you are disrupting someone at work. my text plan has unlimitted texts for $5 a month. that is nothing to me for what i get out of it. my fiance probably has 30 texts a day from friends on a good day. i know FAR more people who Do use texts than dont.

Dang! What plan do you have that is only $5 a month for unlimited texting? I need to get that for my DD.

 

[Tasha+Scott]

I would rather text than talk and I have unlimited texting for a pretty cheap cost so I think it's worth it. To each his own.

 

[Mufasa&Simba]

I really don't text either. I probably send less than one text per month. I just have one friend that I do text with and that's when we want to decided when and where to get together. Plus I'm on a pay as you go plan so I have to pay per text, since I rarely ever talk on the phone either- I hate talking on the phone!

 

[clgwli]

My carrier includes texting for free if you have a data plan. Since I have a Blackberry, I have to have a data plan. So it isn't an added expense.

I am glad I have it because there are times when he cannot pick up a phone but can look at a text. Sounds odd but it is true. Not everyone can talk while at work.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

We e-mail rather than text. We used Blackberries for several years. We switched to iPhones last year. I'll probably switch back to a Blackberry. I prefer e-mail over texts.

 

[jrmasm]

My data plan doesn't covering texting so 95% of the time I email or call.

I can text and wouldn't hesitate to do so in an emergency. I just don't most of the time.

 

[SydSim]

I text. It isn't a need, it's an added convenience. There are many things that people do that are not a necessity - but make their lives a little easier. I talk on the phone and have half an hour conversations with friends and family. My 70 year old mother will send me a text reminding me to pay her cell phone bill for her. I usually talk to her several times a week, but she'll send me a text with the actualy amount to pay, because we don't need to have an entire conversation about her bill. It's so cute to see my 70 year old mom texting

DD-13 has texting - but is only allowed 300/month, because I did't want her to be one of those kids that constantly texts. She doesn't realize that we do have unlimited, she only knows that if she goes over her 300 texts, she's in trouble.

I suppose people in horse-and-buggies said "I don't need any stinking car" too! And we probably don't - but it sure is convenient at times!

 

[jenm2878]

It's just convenient. For example, I told my brother to text me his kid's Christmas lists and sizes. Now I can go to the store and reference my phone rather then try to keep track of a list. Or yesterday I texted my DH reminding him of his dentist appointment. We were both at work and didn't need to have a whole conversation about it, and it's much quicker to read a text then call into voicemail.

Not a neccesity, but it is convenient for times when you need to tell someone something without needing to have a conversation.

 

[LoraJ]

I get the need to text in case of an emergency, to let someone know where you are, etc. But the ongoing conversations and having to text constantly while driving or wherever you are, I don't get. Like the kid on Little People Big World who sent 8000 text messages in a month.