I don't get text messaging.
Well, it's not that I don't get the messages themselves, it's just that I don't understand why it's such a popular thing. Now, I'm a big gadget freak. Huge. In fact, if I had enough disposable income, I would surround myself with so many buttons and screens that I would have to grow an extra head and several more appendages to use them all. Luckily, the electromagnetic radiation from all of the gadgets would take care of that.
My point is, I'm not averse to technology. It’s just this particular technology that doesn’t make sense to me. Now, follow me on this. To send a text message you have to type it out on a keyboard where each key is about the size of a Tic Tac. Oh, and did I mention each key represents three letters? Then you have to hit these keys not with your fingers, but with the largest and least nimble of all the digits, the thumb. To get a sense of the scale here, this is somewhat like using the moon to bank the nine ball into the side pocket.
Making the task even more difficult is that you have to read what you are typing on a screen that is dimmer than Paris Hilton, not to mention that it displays letters at roughly the size of gnats. The whole ordeal reminds me of those people who write the Constitution on a grain of rice. It has a huge PITA factor.
For those who don’t know, PITA stands for pain in the…well, you get the idea. You can forget about being verbose in a text message, and it’s pretty hard to make witty comments when you’re typing things in a language that would make a CIA cryptographer proud. Where I come from CU L8R is not an ending to a letter, it’s a license plate.
If only there was a better way. If only there was some type of device that would just let people use their voices to talk to other people who are miles away. If only people could be holding that very device in their hand at the moment they want to send a text message. Oh, wait…what’s this? You have a PHONE in your hands.
Why not actually use the phone part of your camera-appointment book-voice recorder-calculator-game console-banana slicer device? Yes, now that I think of it, that might be why you bought the thing in the first place. Imagine the convenience of just saying what you want to say and getting an answer in an instant. It would truly be like living in the world of tomorrow.
Well, I would love to continue on this topic, but I have to go answer a text message.
CU L8R.
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