I have a new phone!!!

[Sacred Jellybean]

Text messaging... never saw the point. I mean sure you COULD spend minutes slowly and inaccurately typing in a mispelled bit of TEXT, or, OR, you could TALK TO THEM, leave perhaps a message in their voice mail that they could, say, LISTEN TO.

At some point someone's going to just make the process of inputting text "eaiser" by implementing MORSE CODE in the dang thing. Oh yeah, there's progress.

Or... they could have a SYSTEM in place where you punch KEYS to quickly form WORDS. Take the word "instance". To type that, you type 46782623. Nice and easy. It's not like you type 444 to scroll to the i, then 66 to the n, etc. With enough practice, it becomes easy to scan the keypad for the next letter. Text messaging has come a long way. :) Obviously, there's still room for ambiguity, like the system confusing the words "he" and "if", "go" and "in", etc., but a simple click of a button lets you scroll through words. And in the case of longer words, often times you can put in enough letters to eliminate ambiguity, so you can just type enough of the word and hit "next" to let it finish for you. Really, most inaccuracies come from big fingers pressing small keys, but those are lowered with practice.

You... just send those to yourself all day don't you?

I just don't see why one can't just leave a voice message or "wutnot". I mean if you are in a situation where you can't talk, is looking down at a phone the whole time punching in keys really any better?

If you're in the middle of a conversation, no. If you're in a classroom, yes. It just depends on the situation and how rude you think it'd be. The bigger point, though, is if you have no idea what situation the recipient is in, you can just send a text message to make sure you aren't disruping anything with an annoying ring.