This NuTang clock still doesn't work. It's always in the wrong timezone. Oh and for the record, my chatterbox on the right still works. Don't ask me how, just leave me messages! =D

I don't understand where people don't get the concept that text messages are not THAT important. What irks me is that with certain people, if you don't instantly respond right away, they think you're ignoring them. Has it ever occurred to some of these people that, you might be busy? Or you have your hands full? Full of pots with hot oil, hot baby diapers, hot (use your imagination to whatever extent). You could be driving? You could be at work with a lot of paper work and figure that the text message is TRIVIAL and if it were an emergency, the person has the phone number to CALL and talk to a person about it. I find that text messaging has taken over a lot of people (yes, I do it, too, but only when I have time and the other person has time) and it amazes me how sometimes people get so worked up when you don't answer them.

On a different note, I can say that if you 2 are having a heated conversation and then during the critical moment when you ask a person a serious question, the questioned STOPS texting back. NOW you have the complete right to assume that the person is ignoring you cuz you asked them an icky question.

Continuing my tirade on the short-tempered text message sender. People with iPhones. I HATE people with iPhones. Well, scratch that. I hate people who text with iPhones to people who DON'T have iPhones. I've wanted an iPhone myself just because I wanted to have those damned games on there to keep me busy during work, or I could youtube myself to death, but since I've hacked the work computer, I've put it off.

"Why, David? Why do you hate iPhone users that send messages to regular cell phones?"

For people who really don't have that much tech knowledge about iPhones, the text message interface for the contraption looks like this.



Yeah, it looks like an interface for chat clients right? Works just like one, too. Right after you send a text, it shows up on screen, and when the other person texts back, you can see it right away and respond! YAY! Right? NO! Fuck!

People with REGULAR phones DO NOT have this ability to chat back and forth like it was AIM, MSN, Yahoo! Msgr, ICQ or whatever! When I get a text message, I have to hit a hotkey to read it. If I wanna respond to the message, I hit a hotkey to respond. Then I have to confirm the send. Then I have to wait for the confirmation window to clear. To be honest, that's a hefty time frame to respond to one message while getting 3 other messages sent back to back, each one containing short words or phrases, and having the pop up windows that indicate you have a message. If there is a question in one of the 3 consecutive texts I got, I have to try to answer that quickly before you hit me with another one and we all get confused on which answer is sent for which question. Confusion occurs. And then we have to text back and forth to sort out the confusion, which also may cause even more confusion.

So please, iPhone users; Take the time to think about the less fortunate and send a text message like a text message, not like an instant message. My fingers and other people's T9 phone/fingers don't work as fast as your iPhone technology, have the courtesy to have some patience.

And for the irate text messenger, have some patience when waiting for a text response. For all you know, someone coulda gotten into a car accident texting back. Now the paramedics are lifting this body onto the van and all they can here is the annoying, constant noise of msgs coming from a bloodied cell phone. "Hey! R u there?" "Hello?" "HEY! ANSWERME!" "OMG!@(#*()*&!#"

With that, I leave you with this, text fail.

ryc: thank you for your advice.

that last text message was really funny btw.
» jellysandwich on 2009-12-10 03:17:39

thanks. I agree with you. the environment in which you live in tends to make or break your happiness sometimes. I'd like to believe that if I'm in a place I want to be, I'll be more motivated to go out and do stuff.

I sometimes think that people are ignoring me when they don't respond to my text. and it usually occurs under two circumstances: one, like you said, when you're talking to them, then ask a serious question and the conversation suddenly stops. and two, when I send someone something and then they never answer. not just wait a couple hours to finish whatever they were doing, but just never answer. I'll send a different, less serious text and they answer that one sooner or later, but not the original. and I know how you feel about texting with someone who has an iPhone ... or a Blackberry. same shit. you get like 3 text messages for your every one you want to send back.
» LostSoul13 on 2009-12-10 06:56:31

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