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You have to realize that once you get an unlimited texting plan, you don't hesitate to send a ton of one or two word texts.
by w1ntermute 16y ago
You have to realize that once you get an unlimited texting plan, you don't hesitate to send a ton of one or two word texts.
- Waywocket 16y ago...to everyone in your address book at once.
- _delirium 16y agoNewer SMS interfaces also encourage that by making each text look like just another line in a chat, instead of a separate "message". I have an older phone where you have to read each text message as a separate message, and it causes a bit of an expectations mismatch when I'm texting with someone who's using a client that makes it look like a chat window. I usually send something concise but information-packed, sort of like a tweet, and minimize separate texts. So I might send something like: just got downtown, at cafe whatever. heard from jim? But if I had a chat-like interface on my phone, I might write three separate messages, just got downtown at cafe whatever heard from jim? For me, the latter style is really annoying to receive, because it gets queued as a series of incoming messages I have to read and dismiss separately, but I think that's becoming less common on newer phones. If I switched to that style, I could easily see sending 3x+ more messages without actually changing how much information I send.