Texting

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:25 pm

Seriously, is it that hard to refrain from texting during a PRAYER? AKA communication with God?

TheAnswerIs42 · Post by **TheAnswerIs42** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:56 pm

I am so glad my age group doesn't text. What a lousy way to communicate . . .

bismark · Post by **bismark** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:56 am

next time you are sitting on the toilet and you need to ask a girl out, you will feel otherwise.

A Mom, but not yours · Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:52 am

I am so glad my age group doesn't text. What a lousy way to communicate . . .

Um, how old are you?

A Mom, but not yours · Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:58 am

Seriously, is it that hard to refrain from texting during a PRAYER? AKA communication with God?

These are the same people who whisper or pass notes during the prayer.

A Mom, but not yours · Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:00 am

Okay. Not the topic of the thread, but I have a texting question. Is there anyone here who has texted regularly with both a phone keypad and a qwerty keyboard? If so, which do you prefer? I'm having trouble finding anyone who has done both. Either they've never used qwerty (or only when borrowing a friend's phone) or they were intimidated by texting with a keypad and have always had a qwerty phone.....

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:41 am

I have a keypad, so the qwerty feels strange to me on a phone.

Unit of Energy · Post by **Unit of Energy** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:49 am

I can't text. My mom has it blocked, and she's still paying for my phone so I don't argue. Although I've recently had a couple text messages come through. But I prefer to use the keypad, qwerty is usually too small for my fingers to deal with on cell phones.

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:03 am

Unit of Energy wrote:I can't text. My mom has it blocked, and she's still paying for my phone so I don't argue. Although I've recently had a couple text messages come through. But I prefer to use the keypad, qwerty is usually too small for my fingers to deal with on cell phones.

I still owe you 10 cents for mine that came through, right?

Unit of Energy · Post by **Unit of Energy** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:19 am

Mom said not to worry about it

bismark · Post by **bismark** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:58 am

i've used both. obviously i prefer qwerty, but that could be my geeky bias towards smartphones in general coming through.

Identity Crysis · Post by **Identity Crysis** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:43 pm

I prefer qwerty myself.

Though I'm told dvorak would help with the carpal tunnel

Fredjikrang · Post by **Fredjikrang** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:09 pm

I use Dvorak on my laptop, but I'm not sure it would be any better for a handheld keyboard.

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:28 pm

I, for one, have used both QWERTY and phonepad. (for the record, QWERTY is really easy to type.) I immensely prefer phonepad, because there are less buttons for me to hit if I miss the one I'm aiming for. I've found that a lot of the time, I type way faster on a numberpad. Or, like my blackberry Storm, Suretype. IT's the way to go.

A Mom, but not yours · Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:12 pm

Thanks for the input guys. I'm considering upgrading my zire & cell phone to a centro and one of my biggest hesitations is having to go with qwerty for texting. And I'll miss graffiti.

bismark · Post by **bismark** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:39 pm

whoa wtfetch, storm? zire? centro? its like i fell into a warp of crappy/old tech gadgets.

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:09 pm

Storm is not crappy. Unless you are an idiot and don't know how to do internet research to make it good.

bismark · Post by **bismark** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:08 pm

yawn.