<p>"Just in case you should happen to miss either incessant beeping, a loud ringtone or an insistent vibration in your pocket/purse, why not just get a tattoo that would receive alerts directly from your phone and vibrate to let you know someone has something very important to say? Nokia wants to make that a reality.</p>
<p>In an application filed with the U.S. patent office (via Time.com), Nokia maps out their plan for linking your permanent ink with your personal technology. The idea includes a magnetic vibrating tattoo, basically a device that has “material attachable to skin.” It’ll pick up the signal from a magnetic field and then buzz the device on the person’s skin. …"</p>
<p>Maybe even tattoos that receive texts. Would that be called a texttoo?</p>
<p>D and S and friends text back and forth in conversation as if they are talking on the phone. Imagine that back and forth of a conversation - how many separate entries would be logged if you counted up every time the conversation changes hands? It is the same with conversation via text. Kids and I do the same thing. We may have an exchange of 6 messages about a topic at one time. It is just the conversation going back and forth. Kids can text important info while I’m at work early in the morning before they leave for school and I can answer them when they’re in class. I love it.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ve ever sent more than 15 texts in a single day. There are even some days (sometimes a whole week) where I don’t even touch my phone or it turns out my phone plan has been expired for a couple of days (I have a pay as you go plan).</p>
<p>Also, it’s much more convenient than having an actual talking conversation via the phone. I can’t think of a time when I’d be able to have a three-way call with my parents to tell them both good news at once, but I can always send a text out to both of them at once. If we’re trying to make plans with someone and neither of us can “talk” we can still carry on a conversation via text. </p>
<p>I guess I just don’t understand why this is even a story. Yes, people text- and they text a LOT. It’s not just teens, it’s people of all ages. I’ve had texting since I was a young teenager (I am 21) so I’ve grown up with it. We’re not a “talking” generation and I really didn’t know anyone my age who spent a lot of time “talking” on a phone. Texting is just far and away more convenient and you can multitask much easier with it. </p>
<p>And yes, my family does text each other when we’re at the same house. Usually it’s when one of us is outside and the other inside. We only have 4 rooms total in the house so texting from one room to another would be completely pointless.</p>
<p>Yeah, I don’t think 60 is really that much. When I’m bored at home, I have text convos with some friends. It’s easier than talking on the phone, especially when it’s multiple people you’re conversing with.</p>
<p>RobD, once D and I had a text conversation sitting next to each other on the couch. We were talking about DH behind his back, right in front of his face. :p</p>
<p>As far as 60 texts being a “frenzy” – think about having a moderately complex conversation with someone. Would 60 back-and-forths be considered a frenzy? Just last week, when D was coming home for break, she ran into some air travel problems. I haven’t counted, but I bet we had 40 or 50 texts as we tried to work out a solution.</p>
<p>The fallacy here is that 60 texts a day means a text every fifteen minutes. This ignores the fact that teens use texting for conversations. As somebody upthread suggested, next time you have a phone conversation, try counting how many separate things you say.</p>
<p>What drives me crazy is this: I call my son, get his voicemail, leave a message. He calls me back, and says “What’s up?” I say, "Did you listen to my message?
“What message?” He just called back because he saw a missed call. Arrgh!</p>
<p>Perhaps I am part of the minority, but even as a teenager texting does not appeal greatly to me. I enjoy calling, emailing, and facebook messaging/chat over texting, though I do text on occassion (about 3 times a week on average). I find people texting during lectures, meetings, and performances, which I find to be extremely disrespectful. Granted, it’s not the same as calling someone in the middle of some event, but nevertheless it indicates that other things are more important to the person texting. Especially at meals, texting distances people who are sitting right next to each other and provides a sense of disregard for the surroundings. Maybe it’s just me and my morals, but thought I should toss my two cents into the pool.</p>
<p>Anyone remember the thread where the kid was texting once a <em>minute</em> or so for 12 hours a day to their long distance boyfriend (or maybe it was girlfriend)?</p>
<p><em>That’s</em> a frenzy. 60 per day is nothing.</p>
<p>Zero texts or me or anyone in my family. If you have something to say, say it directly to the person or call if they aren’t within hearing distance. I wish the cell phone had never been invented (and both hubby and I are in IT – so it CAN be done).</p>
<p>60 texts a day is super low. I wouldn’t call that a frenzy. </p>
<p>During the school year, I average about 2,000 a month, and in the summer, about 13,000. </p>
<p>I agree with posters that have said that we (teens) like texting because it’s private, quick/easy, don’t have to answer right away, and no one talks on the phone anymore. </p>
<p>Also, it’s easier to text something you’d otherwise be nervous to do in person, such as ask someone you like-like to hang out, or general flirting.</p>
<p>If something is really private(in a good or bad way), I talk on the phone. </p>
<p>But I really don’t have much to talk about with my friends on the phone to actually hold an ongoing conversation. I’d rather talk to a significant other on the phone, though. </p>
<p>Also, sometimes I don’t have time to actually talk on the phone, like when I’m doing homework, eating, exercising, etc. But I still want to keep in touch.</p>
<p>Also, as someone who has a hard time hearing on the phone (I have hearing loss in both ears), texting is nice. Texting has been a wonderful addition to the deaf and hard of hearing community. Just for those who are anti-texting.</p>
<p>romanigypsyeyes–amen to that. I have the same issues and often will tell anyone that calls, can you email me or text me. It’s wonderful!!</p>
<p>Now as for teens texting. Even sending a couple hundred texts each day, you realize that those texts take maybe 10 minutes a day to send. How long did you spend on the phone talking to your friends back when you were in high school? I also disagree that it makes kids less social, I think it does the exact opposite. It sure is a lot easier to strike up a “conversation” over a text message and meet new people that way. It really isn’t any different than passing notes in school, just more technologically advanced. I love texting, especially when I can text “pick up bread on your way home from school”.</p>
<p>I send 5 a day, maximum. I still prefer e-mails and the occasional good old phone call.</p>
<p>I have unlimited texting for some reason I cannot fathom. I let my friend borrow my phone for a couple hours yesterday to text his girlfriend because his was broken.</p>
<p>My DD (in college) texts about 6000 in one month. Many are one word - but many are “mass” text - to everyone on her team or sorority. So if you text 20 people and they all reply at least once - that is 40 texts.</p>
<p>MY DS (high School) texts less - but over 100.</p>
<p>I also think if you live in an area where everyone has a cell phone - even middle school and elementary school aged kids, they’ll be way more texts.</p>
<p>Thanks goodness for unlimited texting plans.</p>
<p>I didn’t have texting my first two years of college. Sometimes I’d get to the point where I’d exchange numbers with someone that wanted to get to know me better, but when I had to tell them I didn’t have texting I never heard from them again. My parents added unlimited texting to their plan when I went away to school and it made a MASSIVE difference.</p>