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How about people who enter text into their phone by swiping across an on-screen keyboard to form words? Are we the new generation or the old generation? How p
by domador 2y ago
How about people who enter text into their phone by swiping across an on-screen keyboard to form words? Are we the new generation or the old generation? How prevalent are we among mobile phone users?
I find it quaint to see thumb-typists in action, since I feel finger-swiping is faster and less demanding. Yet also wonder how they manage to do it on modern, nearly-edgeless phone screens where it would seem to be so easy to accidentally touch the edge of the screen while you're thumb typing.
My phone-typing origin story is probably atypical. Though I've used cell phones for twenty years, for most of those years I actively avoided typing on the phone, since I hated the experience so much. I usually tried to wait until I could connect the phone to a computer and a keyboard to type messages or tried to send the shortest message possible when urgency made typing on the phone unavoidable. After swipable phone keyboards appeared, though, I became a little more open to entering text into my phone by swiping. However, I still type in most messages by connecting my phone to a computer with a keyboard.
- fnord77 2y agoI don’t know why but swiping hurts my old joints and thumb typing does not.