"SMS messages are transfered over air made of solid gold." Hahaa, brilliant! So that's why I've been paying insane amounts for texting... @ breck: I have sem

"SMS messages are transfered over air made of solid gold." Hahaa, brilliant! So that's why I've been paying insane amounts for texting... @ breck: I have semi-unlimited texting with Verizon, it's free to send or receive from Verizon customers (which is why I got it, I was tired of yelling at my friends for sending me texts like, "im bored. whatre you doing later" and "idk my bff jill?"--almost all of them have Verizon). It is exactly ten dollars a month right now, and I only get a hundred or so texts to and from other companies. A truly unlimited texting plan is somewhere in the area of $50.00 a month, I believe. Don't quote that, my internet is being ridiculously slow and I'm not about to wait for it to load the Verizon Wireless page to check. @ tptacek: I may complain about Verizon, but it's only because I love them. Why, you ask? Two reasons. One, my close friends all use Verizon, so texting them costs me nothing, and costs THEM nothing as well. Two, I have brand name loyalty and know it. It is MY network and so, logically, it is better than everyone else's. Haha. Seriously though, if there WAS a better network I could switch to, as well as have all my friends and family switch to, I would do it in an instant. The problem that I have right now, is that even if I were to pay less money, switching over to something like Cricket, my friends would all end up paying MORE money because I'm no longer on their network. Which probably means that while I have unlimited texting to whoever I want, no one will want me to send them messages, because it's costing them money. And if no one is sending me messages, and I am not sending anyone else messages, what is the point of having unlimited texting?