Text Messaging

I love text messaging. It just plain makes sense to me.

Providing that I am not around a computer, texting is the most efficient way to carry on multiple conversations at once and if I start getting bored, I want to reach out to someone with a random question or comment and texting is my method of choice.

If I'm in the living room watching TV with my wife and a text comes in, I reply and I still know what's going on and there's little to no interruption in the real life part of things. My wife knows if she speaks, I'll stop typing and reply. That's the real bonus here: being able to stop and start whenever I want to.

Some think it's a rude thing to do. I agree. In certain places and times it is rude to do, but when you don't want to call someone and talk for who knows how long, a text works wonders.

It's also handy when you want to leave a message, just a quick message, that is not urgent and doesn't need to be acknowledged anytime soon. Someone will be coming by sometime this week to feed your cats while you're out of town, say. You can text him "the key is inside a fake rock under the bushes on the right side of the front path to the door." He doesn't need to respond to that and you're gone. Do you really want to go through the time and energy needed to call him, let the phone ring and then he'll pick it up and say hello? You'll say hello, exchange pleasantries, ask how the family is and oh, by the way, this is where the key to my house is located.

That's not practical and time is short in this life.

So yay to texting! The wave of the future!