I watch my nieces 15 and 17 text their friends and family and am amazed by the speed and accuracy..lol
I don't have text and if I did snail mail could get the letter there quicker.. Do you text?

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I don't have text, and I have never texted either. However, after the VT massacre, I am thinking that it would be a good idea to have it for dd, myself and dh.

Same here, I have it on my phone but I am sooo slow. I do it sometimes but not often. My kids can do it so fast.

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DH and I have texted each other a few times, but that's it. I'm not very fast at it either and it's easier for me to just call him real quick if I need to.

Nope-- If I can't reach someone, I leave them a voice mail. LOL

Holly

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I sent a text or two, and it took me forever to do it ...LOL After Hurricane Katrina, all the phone lines were down, and I was trying to get in touch with someone that had gotten back to the area so they would check on the condition of my house. We found that while even the cell phone towers were down, and you couldn't even get a cell call through...text messaging worked. I sent a few really short texts...and it took me F-O-R-E-V-E-R to do it. It amazes me when I'm somewhere and see kids texting and they are super fast, and they aren't even looking at the phone when doing it.

OMG! YES! I have a T-moble Sidekick 3 separate from my cell phone so I can AIM /Text and email and surf the web when I'm away from the computer. Which isn't often, but I MUST be connected! LOL

Yeah, I'm a geek, Deal...... :-)

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Yep I text my brother and my SIL. We used text messaging after hurricanes if the other phone isn't working at her house she lives in Florida.

I when I was in Florida I sent my brother a text with a picture of Palm Trees and replied back and called me an A-whole!! LOL I knew he was up here freezing.

yes i am a text junkie LOL I have unlimited and its great cause i send/receive 2000-3000 a month, thats correct thousand LOL my friends and i are always texting

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only text if DH is in a meeting and I need to send him a message at work ASAP. Otherwise, I hate it. My brother texts all the time and I hate hearing his little "beeps" when messages come in. During dinner one night (I had him over0, it beeped 20 times in 30 minutes! I gave him the "don't you dare...." stare so he didn't respond until after dinner

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Did you see the story on Yahoo how they have a fastest texting contest! Crazy!! And yes I do text. My one friend prefers texting people, so I have learned to be pretty good.


NEW YORK (AFP) - It's a sport only for the fleet of thumb with a ruthless dedication to punctuation.

And while competitive text messaging may not have quite gained Olympic status, the hundreds of mostly teenagers who took part in the US championships in New York Saturday could think of little but the 25,000-dollar prize money.

Some 250 challengers shunned the warmest day of the year for a dark ballroom where they battled it out for a chance to take on the reigning West Coast champion, 21-year-old Eli Tirosh, for the title of US Texting Champion.

Contestants had to stand with their hands behind their backs until a bell sounded and a message appeared on an overhead screen. The winner was judged on whoever's message -- checked for exact punctuation -- reached the judges first.

The text tests ranged from "faster than a speeding bullet..." and "what we do in life echoes in eternity" to the less poetic "OMG, nd 2 talk asap," which for those over 30 means "Oh my God, need to talk as soon as possible."

The 250 competitors were quickly whittled down to eight semi finalists, one of whom, Anne Finn, 24, of Allegany, New York, said the pressure was too much.

"It was so nerve wracking. My hands started to shake. I couldn't get my apostrophe," she said.

In the end, 13-year-old Morgan Pozgar faced off against Michael "Cheeser" Nguyen in the east coast final, with Pozgar slipping past her challenger to face west coast champion Tirosh, a law student from Los Angeles.

"I just wasn't fast enough," said Nguyen, a 23-year-old engineer from Pennsylvania. Asked how it felt to take second place, he was clearly disappointed: "I just got beaten by a teenage girl, but you know."

Tirosh, who said she practiced with her friend and trainer Amy, who threw out random words or symbols and even motivational Buddhist quotes, admitted to feeling a certain pressure due to the home side advantage.

Wearing a satin boxing robe before her championship bout against Pozgar, she said success would come down to who could marry lightning speed and accuracy.

"It's all about the thumbwork," she said. "It's about balance." She said she owed her success to relaxation and deep breathing.

So dedicated is she to the art of the text message that Tirosh apparently unwittingly uses abbreviations such as BTW (by the way), TTYL (talk to you later) and LOL (laughing out loud) in her normal speech.

Pozgar said she trained by sending on average 8,000 text messages a month to her friends -- an astonishing rate of one every five and a half minutes. She pays 10 dollars a month for an unlimited text package on her cell phone.

In a tense championship final, Tirosh seemed to have won after putting down her phone first, only for judges to rule she had made a 15,000-dollar typo in the lyrics to Mary Poppins song "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."

Pozgar, who says she wants to work in fashion when she's older, had no hesitation about how to spend her prize money -- 10,000 dollars for the east coast championship and a further 15,000 dollars for the national award.

She said she was going to hit the stores in New York City.

Her mother Shannon, who had driven five hours into New York from Pennsylvania on Saturday morning for the event, said she would let Morgan spend some of the money but was eyeing the rest for her college fund.

Asked if she would describe herself as a geek, Pozgar rolled her eyes and said no. Her brother, who had separately won a television, seemed to disagree.

I must admit it's on my phone but I have no idea how to use it!! (That also goes for the camera, I took a picture of my ear one day!!) My nephew texted me and I had to get my niece to read it because I didn't know how!! Hey, I am not in school any more I can call someone when ever I feel like it!!

Probably 1-2 texts a day. Im not a big fan but it's useful when you just want to say something but dont want or need to talk.

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I have used it a few times. But I'm so very slow. My fingers are to big for the buttons. They made the damn phones smaller then added the text feature what since does that make.

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Me and hubby text each other every few days when we're feeling either lovey dovey or frisky

Occasionally, if I need to tell a long winded person something, I will send a short text just so that I don't get stuck in a conversation that I dont really wanna have, lol. Sounds mean I know, but I have three kids, a couple jobs, a home & a hubby to care for, thus I don't have time for hour long conversations about what Sally wore to church or Julie's landscaping looks horrible, etc.

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I actually sent my first text message this morning. Someone sent me a text last night, and I tried to text him back and couldn't figure out how to do it. This morning, I had my husband show me before he left for work.

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I'm text junkie. At first, I was so cheap I was telling people to text my email account. But I finally put out the $5 to get 400 text messages a month.

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I don't text - it takes me 20 minutes to put a new name in my phonebook

I work in a school where kids are not supposed to have cell phones, and there is no service in most rooms. I watched a boy tip his chair back toward the window then he held the phone behind his head and TEXTED!!! I had a hard time believing that that can be done until I asked my DS to show me, and he did. Unbelievable!!!