Will Texting become a thing of the past ?

Badly Drunk Boy

Deleted User wrote: »

That is some difference between our message logs :eek:

I think the difference comes from the fact that I hate people and they hate me.

kincsem

Enda Murphy wrote: »

Will texting (sms) become a thing of the past? Something only old farts do? When the young people meet these days they ask first are you on facebook not for a phone number.

I'm a 61 year old fart, don't have a mobile, but am on facebook. Your theory is busto.

Godsentme

I'm a 63 yo fart and have a 10 yo mobile. I make about 3/4 texts a week. I miss more calls than I recieve because I can actually walk more than 100 yards or go to bed/have a shower/ eat/ ****e or walk the dog without it. I never ring back. If it was important they'll ring back or it'll be too late anyway.

I am on Face book. Just to keep an eye on my grandchildren. So thats 3 friends.

partyatmygaff

CoolHat wrote: »

But everything else will too. I can imagine in 20 years the likes of forums, like boards, will be laughed at by the current generation.

I don't know... Bulletin board setups have been around since the earliest days of the Internet. I don't see them going away any time soon.

AulBiddy

I think in 20 years time even Facebook will be dying out. Yes, the internet will still be in use but only for average day to day things and something new and improved will come in.

J K

Phantom.

Zascar

Standard SMS text messages will probably die out. Anyone who has a smartphone can use apps like "WhatsApp" or now iMessage on iPhones to send completely free texts, photos, video and Audio - over the data network. Its more like using gchat or msn messenger etc - you can see when the other person is tying and you have more of a conversation rather than a 160 character message back and forward. In a few years almost everyone will have smartphones so no need to pay for texts, and with apps like Viber, no need to pay for calls either!

vampire of kilmainham

stupid mother****ing thread

Yakult

Yeah texting will, IM is the future seeing as most phones come with such feature.

Kanoe

I closed fb account ages ago, anyone I ever met in person turned out to be a dick on it. I really don't need to know what they're doing every other minute of the day, especially when it's followed by a stream of statements by others who wish to testify to said triviality. which was a shame because they were usually ok in person. I like texting though. nothing like a nice good night text from some random stranger.

Azureus

Facebook is handy for aquaintances, only my closer friends would have my phone number to text me.
That said, nothing beats a good aul fashioned phone call.

Nova forever

Texting sure is in decline

Colmustard

It will when some clever nerd comes-up with a way of talking to the person from the phone. But that is 100 years away.

Blikes

Texting may be on the decline but dragging up year old threads is alarmingly on the rise :P

omgitsthelazor

Facebook is old at this stage btw

Shryke

Aw screw this I read the first 2 pages before I realised.

validusername1

People probably ask for someone's Facebook these days rather than their number 'cause you can find out so much more about someone by looking at their Facebook profile

MJ23

Hopefully text speak will become a thing of the past.

RUCKING FETARD

Nova forever wrote: »

Texting sure is in decline

What were you looking up to come across this thread?

Texting is increasing anyway.

Texting now more popular that talking, according to a new survey

FanadMan

Txting will never die cos people say things by txt that they could never say directly to someone....mainly because there is no face-to-face contact and the whole world won't see it on something facebook

Yakult

Mind powered means of communication and product interaction. You will have all electronic devices connect wirelessly to your brain within 1 metre of distance and you chose what to do with power of thought and the device will do it. Imagine going into a restaraunt, sitting down and having ordered by just thinking your order etc.

Cú Giobach

Tiocfaidh Armani wrote: »

I'm a morse code man myself:cool:

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Gummy Panda

I use whatsapp more then texting now.

philologos

It'll exist in different forms. My Windows phone can integrate with facebook chat, windows live, e-mail amongst other things. It's more a question of when legacy devices that still use SMS-only die out.

Cú Giobach

Yakult wrote: »

Mind powered means of communication and product interaction. You will have all electronic devices connect wirelessly to your brain within 1 metre of distance and you chose what to do with power of thought and the device will do it. Imagine going into a restaraunt, sitting down and having ordered by just thinking your order etc.

And watch the look on your nubile young waitresses face as she bends over to fill your glass, or the sounds coming from the people reading the "thought translator" in the kitchen.