Text or not to text

12 Feb 2012

With all the information bombarded at us on a daily basis, the internet, work, emails, phone calls, text messages, status updates etc, are there certain things that make you feel a bit odd with the way it's sent?
For me, I find jokes awkward when sent to my phone. How on earth do you reply when you just simply either don't find them funny? Or, you laugh just one burst of incredulous 'oh dear, that was terrible' snorted laughter? And is it easier to reply when you do really belly laugh?
I don't feel odd or awkward when it's an email, because you can just ignore an email and not feel the slightest bit guilty nor bound to reply. However, it is another kettle of fish when it's not.
There is that whole personal thing of it being sent to your phone and the feeling that you have to give a reply, an approval, an acknowledgement of the other person bothering to send it to you, maybe even spending 8 - 14pence on the text to make you smile. Other than LOL (laugh out loud) what do you write without offending the sender?
'That wasn't funny.'
'Er... OK then.'
'Cheers.'
Is it just me that feels like this or am I being weird? dunno

12 Feb 2012

do people still pay for texts these days rolleyes

12 Feb 2012

Yeah, some of my friends do, and I still have a PAYG too.
Guess I never really did use my mobile that much and still don't. Much to my friend's and family's dismay at times.
Three days is a long time to wait for a text reply! lol

12 Feb 2012

I don't find joke text funny so I don't reply in the hope the person will get the hint and stop sending me them smile

12 Feb 2012

Quote by little gem
Three days is a long time to wait for a text reply!

I know someone like that...if and when your reading...yes I mean YOU.. how long!!! wink

12 Feb 2012

Never reply to texts,e-mails, phone calls .... anything that doesn't require technology sod it

12 Feb 2012

I'm a light user of the mobile phone too, and I never feel guilty about not replying after an exchange of texts - I just think "Well, one of us has got to end this, otherwise we'll just go on for ever."
And I just don't want jokes by text, and do not feel guilty asking someone not to text me jokes. I had to ask an ex-member here on SH to stop sending me tasteless jokes, I just said we had a different sense of humour. I'd be surprised if anyone was offended by such a request - I'm just saving them time surely!
....I've never objected to a text from Little Gem though! lol

13 Feb 2012

You live with Neil so you obviously have a sense on humour.....so fuck em and don't feel guilty for not replying wink

13 Feb 2012

Don't reply - except when it's me that's calling/texting! lol

That said I never send jokes etc by text or even email.
I am also very bad at returning calls, emails and messages but want people to reply back to mine - I know pot-kettle! lol

13 Feb 2012

Quote by mistress_sassy
Don't reply - except when it's me that's calling/texting!
That said I never send jokes etc by text or even email.
I am also very bad at returning calls, emails and messages but want people to reply back to mine - I know pot-kettle!

Natural born diva! lol

13 Feb 2012

Quote by mistress_sassy
Don't reply - except when it's me that's calling/texting!
That said I never send jokes etc by text or even email.
I am also very bad at returning calls, emails and messages but want people to reply back to mine - I know pot-kettle!

Just as well some of us tolerate you then.

13 Feb 2012

I have 2 mobiles, both payg, and I pay to send a text message...probably costs me about 80p per year per phone.
I only read texts occasionally, and I never knowingly read one from someone I don't know. Apart from an exchange of relevant and immediate information I rarely send a text nor expect to receive one. I probably delete some 40 or 50 unread text messages each month...if I've ever received a joke text then I was fortunate enough not to have read it. If I wish to communicate with someone I'll prefer to speak to them, although I have no problem with chatroom messages or internal messaging such as we have at s.h..

13 Feb 2012

Quote by little gem
Three days is a long time to wait for a text reply!

Texting sucks. On a proper keyboard I can type 60wpm on a bad day, but on my phone I can do... maybe 6 - I just don't have the patience for this! I do not carry my mobile phone on my person at all times, sometimes I don't get to *see* a text message for hours or days, let alone reply to it.
And once someone called me a TATRTT...
.."Takes Ages To Reply To Texts". Damn right!

14 Feb 2012

Quote by Andy_Jules
I have a mobile 'Johns Phone' no camera, no txt or email, no wi-fi, wap bluetooth or IR connection, no usb, sync, facetime, facilities but simply a push button keypad and a small one line display for incoming call recognition, Jules hates me taking it out with me when I'm on my travels but the freedom of not having to pander to all the various options of communication other than speech that the current mobile phones appear to offer has been quite refreshing.
I did hear a report on the radio a few days ago where they mentioned that people who lose their bank cards often take from a few hours to up to a couple of days to realise but take less than ten minutes on average to realise their phone is missing.
Andy

Left my card at a supermarket for 3 days before I realised. Only spotted that it was missing when I went to buy something else.
I usually spot the phone is missing when I go to call someone. That could take minutes or days again.
I even lost the car for 3 days when I took it to a pub, then went from designated driver to joining in as everyone said we'll get a taxi back. Had to trawl every pub in Colchester trying to find the bloody thing as nobody could remember where we had been.
Dave_Notts

18 Feb 2012

I don't really do text messages. It's too much like hard work. As per the other ongoing thread I have to type everything out in fully punctuated sentences. Gets to be a right pain in the testicles when you realise you need hyphens and colons and shit? They hide simple punctuation in the daftest, too many clicks away places on even the simplest phones. rolleyes

Me sis does pure txt spk. I hate it. She can be quite stylish I suppose with it, typing all in Can hardly be arsed even trying to work out WTF she's on about at times unless it's important, at which point I'll usually just give up and actually call her, but mostly I find myself thinking 'FFS love, you're 41, grow up. Hate to be the one to break it to ya but you're not down wiv da yoofs no more, you're really not'. It's even worse when me mam does it. She's 60 odd FGS. She should barely even know how to text let alone spell your as UR? It's wrong I tell you, it's just so wrong. confused

18 Feb 2012

I text, e mail, speak, message all from my phone. I fully embrace all this new technology.I have even been known to use the odd WTF as and when it suits. It seems to me that this site is littered with what could be termed Text speak. BBW, VWE or even VVWE where is the difference?

18 Feb 2012

Quote by Onthebeach_1
It seems to me that this site is littered with what could be termed Text speak. BBW, VWE or even VVWE where is the difference?

Ah, that is not text speak, those fall into the respected tradition of internet acronyms, IYKWIM ;)

18 Feb 2012

How can you loose a car? :shock: Not permanently! Good greif! I thought I had some dizzy moments, but blimey, you two make me feel like a professor! lol

Text speak... wrong! But especially wrong when my mother sends me text speak messages, including emails. She's one of the offenders with the jokes in messages where I cringe a lot and wince wondering how to tell her to stop. We fell out for a short time when I asked her to stop sending me emails that I found borderline offensive, she took umbridge and refused to speak to me for around a month. I'm just glad at her age she is techno-savvy, so try not to whinge too much. lol

Onthebeach.... The difference between acronyms and text speak is the 'BBW', 'VWE', 'BDSM', stand for the initials of the word, VWE = Very Well Endowed, where as text speak just contracts words to have a mixture of letters or symbols that make the same sound (ish) as the word, but it saves on space.
Knd v lke tis. ru getin wht i sy? Wht u doin l8r? Ru OK? CU sn.
kiss

LG. x

19 Feb 2012

Quote by little gem
How can you loose a car? :shock: Not permanently! Good greif! I thought I had some dizzy moments, but blimey, you two make me feel like a professor!
Onthebeach.... The difference between acronyms and text speak is the 'BBW', 'VWE', 'BDSM', stand for the initials of the word, VWE = Very Well Endowed, where as text speak just contracts words to have a mixture of letters or symbols that make the same sound (ish) as the word, but it saves on space.
Knd v lke tis. ru getin wht i sy? Wht u doin l8r? Ru OK? CU sn.
LG. x

Not wishing to sound pedantic and i appreciate what UR saying re text speak, but BBW or VWE are not acronyms they are initialisms surely, NASA, NATO, OPEC or QUANGO are. LOL is more of an acronym than BDSM.
Are smileys txt spk?

19 Feb 2012

Quote by Onthebeach_1
Are smileys txt spk?

No, they are emoticons.
VWE & BBW and their ilk are acronyms.
u
lol
ROFL
ROFLMAO
733t..etc are all examples of text speak.

19 Feb 2012

Quote by Onthebeach_1
It seems to me that this site is littered with what could be termed Text speak. BBW, VWE or even VVWE where is the difference?

Quote by Onthebeach_1
but BBW or VWE are not acronyms they are initialisms surely, NASA, NATO, OPEC or QUANGO are. LOL is more of an acronym than BDSM.

So why did you ask then if you already swallowed the dictionary and Oxford definition of what's what? Hmmmm? lol

FYI - Initialisms are a specific form of acronym. smile

Quote by Onthebeach_1
Are smileys txt spk?

I look forward to you answering your own question again. :giggle:

19 Feb 2012

Quote by Rogue_trader
u
lol
ROFL
ROFLMAO
733t..etc are all examples of text speak.

These abbreviations (OTB, just for you I will call them abbreviations! You split that hair pretty precisely lol

) have been knocking about on the net *way* before mobile telephony/texting hit the masses. In fact, because of OTB's pedantry I had a chat with my husband about it today, and he pointed out that textual/numeric abbreviations had been well-established for many years in telegraphy/morse coding, CB/Ham radio and the like... And that, funnily enough, a few of these abbreviations are still used today (u a fine example for this). Leetspeak is something else entirely, but again not text speak dunno

GTGN 88
:P

19 Feb 2012

Quote by pebble
.... CB/Ham radio and the like...

CQ, CQ, CQ DX. ;)

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