I have textual relationships more and more..

JohnWishbone11

Do you conduct your relationship and/or affairs via text mostly.

Has communication reached an all time low when it should be at an all time high with advanced forms of communication..i have push mail, i have wireless, i have bluetooth, infra red, firewire (lie), email on demand, pda with email access.

Its so easy to avoid ''possibly'' embarassing situations that are good for your own self development. Or is it a good honest soundboard where you can sit and think about what you are really thinking instead of telling them what they want to hear cause there standing in front on you.

Mossy Monk

i prefer to speak to someone

text messages are only for situations where you cant talk

Ruu_Old

Mossy Monk wrote:

i prefer to speak to someone

text messages are only for situations where you cant talk

Agreed, I rarely use text messages at all much anymore, just if I'm late in town or stuck somewhere, etc.

Caliden

Text messages are only for situations where you are extremely drunk and talking on the phone could possibly result in the other person thinking they are recieving a call from someone in a mental institute.
Calling someone for <60 seconds is cheaper than a text. depending on network ofc

Black Swan

If you are trying to maintain a distance relationship, chat, email, boards, and PMs are useful. And if you are creatively playful, can add much to a relationship.

Adam

Text messages are a sorry excuse for human interaction. If 90% of interaction is body language, how can one interact on a personal level via a handheld device. Give me a face to face conversation any day!

I spent 7 hours with my girlfriend today. We sat in a lounge drinking coffee, with occassional cigarette breaks, for the duration. We talked about more than a year of texting could have covered, and it was conveyed properly. I rest my case.

EDIT: Don't get me wrong, texting has its uses and I do text her regularly when we don't see one another, but it's far from my preference.

OliviaM

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

If you are trying to maintain a distance relationship, chat, email, boards, and PMs are useful. And if you are creatively playful, can add much to a relationship.

I agree! cause i'm in that situation right now. it helps.

Big Nelly

Text messages are great, use them daily and pushs up my bill, work on the road so spend alot of time with a mobile stuck to my ear so if contacting someone on personal one I will usually just send a text, also GF over on Oz at the moment so its the easiest way to communicate. Skype is also a great invention and yahoo can be handy but she is not able to use the internet as much as me(BB, LAN and 3g card so nearly always logged on)

Also some dirty txt are alway nice to get, just have to make sure some prat doesnt start going thru your phone!!!:eek:

Sam Vimes

i hate texting. much prefer to call someone. my gf loves it for some bizarre reason. this program has saved my life (by which i mean loads of money)

Big Nelly

Commander Vimes wrote:

i hate texting. much prefer to call someone. my gf loves it for some bizarre reason. this program has saved my life (by which i mean loads of money)

Yeah great believer in this programs, use it to txt GF in Oz, so handy!!

watsgone

Txting has its up side cheaper and all that, But I sometimes would rather someone to take the time out to just call me..

Ickle Magoo

Mossy Monk wrote:

i prefer to speak to someone

text messages are only for situations where you cant talk

Agree completely - I would rather spend a couple of minutes speaking & then get on with my life than spend hrs texting back & forth - it certainly has it's uses but if I can speak to someone face to face or pick up a phone & call them, I'd much, much, much rather do that.

Mossy Monk

watsgone wrote:

Txting has its up side cheaper and all that

what network are you on?

molypiper

there are advantages to texting like you're able to tell what you can't say in person. but texting is time consuming and is good only for people who aren't busy.

Marksie

UUGH texting!
I was around before mobiles and texting so i got used to direct communication.
Facial expression and feeling are worth so much more than texts.

texting in an excuse not to develop communication skills

Big Nelly

marksuttonie wrote:

UUGH texting!
I was around before mobiles and texting so i got used to direct communication.
Facial expression and feeling are worth so much more than texts.

texting in an excuse not to develop communication skills

Trying ringing a mobile in Oz for a while and I tell you will soon get used to txting!!! only people with no communication skills would say it doesnt develop comms skills, I txt alot but get paided for been able to talk to people.....

Trinity

I am a textaholic - i send roughly 1600 - 1800 a month if not more (O2 staff have actually laughed at me!!). I enjoy the odd phone call but then again it depends on with whom i am communicating.

If they are texters too i text them or they text me, if they are phone call people - i call them. But generally i would text first to make sure i am not calling at a bad time and they can reply to my text at their leisure. But texts or calls are not in lieu of meeting up, the face to face is most important too!

TerrorFirmer

Trinity1 wrote:

I am a textaholic - i send roughly 1600 - 1800 a month if not more

I send...3750 monthly according to the calculator.

Just like texting.

I mean you can't be talking 24/7 on the phone and with Meteor free texts its a win win situation.

takola

HavoK wrote:

I send...3750 monthly according to the calculator.

Just like texting.

I mean you can't be talking 24/7 on the phone and with Meteor free texts its a win win situation.

I just checked mine and I send 4670 a month. :eek:

I love texting but I really do need to get a life!

Trinity

HavoK wrote:

I send...3750 monthly according to the calculator.

Just like texting.

I mean you can't be talking 24/7 on the phone and with Meteor free texts its a win win situation.

Do you mind if i mention your name to O2 the next time they are laughing at me when i call to ask why my phone bills are so high!!

murrayeel

texting has beauty of its own and it helps in deepening and strengthening long distance relationships.;)

watsgone

Mossy Monk wrote:

what network are you on?

Vodafone, bundles all the way

I'm a textaholic only because of meteors free txt messaging and the fact that the majority of my friends are fellow .. er .. meteorians too.

Otherwise I wouldn't txt as much.

TerrorFirmer

Trinity1 wrote:

Do you mind if i mention your name to O2 the next time they are laughing at me when i call to ask why my phone bills are so high!!

The best part is is only costs me 20.00 a month

God bless Meteor...

HavoK

HavoK wrote:

The best part is is only costs me 20.00 a month

God bless Meteor...

Damn tootin'

Heck, there's even times when I'd be serving a customer in work whilst txting. And who says men can't multi-task, HAH!

Mossy Monk

takola wrote:

I just checked mine and I send 4670 a month. :eek:

I love texting but I really do need to get a life!

6.276 texts per hour over a 24 hour period :eek:

i'd be lucky to send that many in a fortnight

ando

well i send about 30 a day... pretty much all to my GF. She's in college so its the only way to communiate with her during that time but a lot of txts are after hours aswell. Its just the way we do it

Tar.Aldarion

Hmm, since meteor free texts I have (/looks at message counter) recieved 19,519 messages and sent 8,535.
All that money saved and all those pointless texts!

Anyway, they are great for keeping in touch with the gf and some friends as they are far away.
If I could see them in person texting wouldn't really be done that much.

Civilian_Target

Texting = yawn! I go though about 100 messages a month, tops, and usually they're to organise meeting someone face to face. Texts are not for conversation!

Sam Vimes

watsgone wrote:

Vodafone, bundles all the way

the other networks both have bundles and they're cheaper


assuming you mean ready to go voda charges €8 for 100, o2 charges €7.50 for 100 and meteor charges €7.50 for 150



edit: that info could be out of date but i don't think so

Mossy Monk

checking the cost of an o2 bundle on o2.ie

is it down for anyone else?