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Hall: A Rebel Without A Text Message

Posted by DFO

Feb. 16, 2009 9:28 a.m. • 7 comments

If you love somebody and you want to say so other than to her face, is it classier to do that by deliberate illiteracy? Or is it cooler to use that same textable cell phone to call her instead and let her relish the sound of your actual voice trembling with affection and passion? Apparently that is an ignorant question. I suspect the texters are caught up in the game of showing off how much you can say in the fewest letters possible, providing they use the same style of condensed fadspeak that everyone else is using. In other words, texting is like jeans. If you don’t use the same style as everyone else, you’re not with it/Bill Hall, Lewiston Tribune. More here.

Question: How are you in adapting to the latest electronic gadgets and means of communication, like texting?

Seven comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Cindy_H on February 16 at 9:47 a.m.
I’m not.
JeanC on February 16 at 10:22 a.m.
I don’t text and have no intention to even tho I now have a Tracfone capable of it. Not going to activate that service. It is bad enough I have to upgrade to a phone that is more complicated then my computer, I am not going to use it for anything except for talking on. Besides, I have enough problems figuring out personalized license plates, how am I supposed to figure out text messages :P
MikeK on February 16 at 10:27 a.m.
I’m entering the text world begrudingly, but there are benefits. My kids don’t have cell phones, though they really want them, but they know how to use their parents’ which can be very helpful actually to give dictation while driving to be texted to someone. Like everything else there are early adapters, regular adapters, and holdouts. If the technology has staying power, the holdouts will come on board at some point. If not, then time still goes on.
Charlie on February 16 at 10:31 a.m.
Not very well. As soon as I learn something new, I have fallen behind more than ever. I will leave it to the younger crowd and their new toys.
I tried texting and found it easier and faster to just call the person. The beginning of Arthur-rite-us does not help the fingers.

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.