Texting
shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
My question is which do you use? I have found that voice texts have the problem of misunderstanding me and type the wrong thing. So now I type all of my messages except for the rare times I need to send one while I am driving.
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I like predictive text, where you start typing and it gives you the word choice it thinks you are going to type, so you can just use that word instead of typing every letter out.
Once you get used to that, it makes it a lot easier and faster. I never tried the dictation method.
What if texting had been invented before the telephone. After the telephone was invented people would say -- "This is so great. What a wonderful invention. You can communicate with someone by just *talking*. No more typing!"
Funny but true.
That's probably correct.
True story. I only got my very first cell phone capable of texting years ago so a stripper could text me.
"Idiot" and "lazy" are excellent ways to describe a PL (me) and the stripper back then.
I speak then verify.
As for speeding, were it not for cruise control, I'd need JS69 to get me out of jail.
The company car I now have came WITHOUT it! I got permission to purchase an after market one and install it. Like you, I often caught myself flowing with traffic at 70+ in a 55.
I'll set it about 3-4 MPH over an am usually the slowest vehicle on the road! :)
"Texting in my opinion is how idiots communicate. Add in lazy people as well." While there may be a lot of idiots and lazy people that use texting to communicate the same can be said of internet message boards.
Personally, I have been texting since the late 90s because it was the only way to communicate with my deaf sister. Ever since mobile video such as skype has become more popular I find myself texting much less.
I'm surprised by your statement. Sure, there are a lot of teenagers, idiots, etc, texting "Hey wazzzuup?". However, I think it's used by a lot of successful business people for efficient communication too. It's not a whole lot different than email, for short messages that need to be seen immediately.
Regarding texting when driving -- or any other time I'm busy, for that matter -- I've set up my phone with a number of pre-canned texts that I often send to strippers (or anyone else, for that matter) like: "I'm driving, get back to you in a bit", "Leaving the house, see you in an hour", "Looking for parking, see you in a few", "I'm driving, switch to voxer", "I'm outside", etc. You can do that too, it's pretty easy.
Whenever possible, with most people I'm close with, including my ATFs, I talk them into switching to Voxer or Snapchat instead. You can send private voice messages with both (with snapchat, you'll just send a video but cover the camera). I like this because I can just talk instead of type, and because I love hearing their voices. Voxer is by far the most convenient for sending voice messages back and forth, and it works exactly like a walkie-talkie of you're both live on the other end, but more strippers will have snapchat.
When I send texts, I switch back and forth between voice (which, as you've figured outout, sometimes gets t hingsn wrong) and a swype-style keyboard. I would never peck on a phone-sized keyboard, swype is 100x faster and more accurate
I prefer email, and I use full sized keyboards. I am on lots of message boards, and I run many of my own. To the girls this is completely alien.
For most women it is all about the body and face to face. So they like clothes. But for most, the printed word is secondary.
My ex-wife was an exception in this area. She was into newspapers, online text, and email. But she was rare.
SJG
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Plus, she can't send me naked pics over the phone but she can take a pic and text it too me in a heartbeat. Nothing makes your day brighter than getting a quick text of some T&A from your wife. It's not always her either. She'll send a pic of some chica she saw somewhere or some naked chica online and tell me she'd loved to fuck her. Damn I love texts.
-Stop talking
-Time to leave
An obvious for dealing with people like sex workers.
SJG
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Maybe that's true but texting is nice because you can communicate with someone that you probably don't really want to talk to or have a conversation with!
SJG