I guess it is time to get “with the times”. We have owned cell phones for about 10 years now. But my husband and I have never texted. In fact, we really do not know how. But my oldest son turned 13 in December. He has been wanting a cell phone because all of his friends had one. That in itself was NO reason to get him a cell phone. But when he kept borrowing other kids’ phones to call us to pick him up after practice or games, we decided that now is the time.
We purchased his first cell phone yesterday. We got him 1000 texts a month and 300 minutes. We assumed that would be enough. But the way kids are these days, we may be reconsidering that! We wanted more texts than minutes because we can see what is being said to who. He already knows that we will be nosy and will be reading his text messages. He is fine with that. He is just tickled that he now has his own phone. On a side note, he is not allowed to take it to school. And if he misbehaves, the cell will be the first thing to go.
Since my son has been texting, he has been teaching good old dad and me how to also. So my husband and I have been slowly - and I mean slowly - texting each other all day today. It is quite humorous. My neighbor (a more hip and up to date person than me) was giggling when she came over and kept hearing my phone ring. And at first, I kept picking up the phone and saying “hello”. I didn’t know it rang when someone is texting you! So, I am beginning to “get” the whole texting thing. And when I finally get it down, I am sure there will be something else new and exciting to try and learn. And I will learn it WAY after it has been popular for awhile.
Now….if I can only figure out how to download that ring tone!
4 responses so far ↓
1 Heather // Apr 4, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Good luck learning to text. Texting works when cell lines are down (my DSIS and her SO texted during the NYC blackout a few years ago), so it’s a good skill to have.
2 busymom // Apr 4, 2008 at 8:39 pm
I’m with your son. I do a lot of texting. Be sure to find a way to watch the number of texts he is doing. I had a 500 text plan on Becka’s phone and she went over one month 700 messages!! We had a LONG talk when that bill came in. But after I went and talked to the cell phone place, I found out for $5 more a month I could have unlimited texting put on both of our phones. I agreed as I was always cautious too to make sure I didn’t go over. Now we don’t have to worry about it.
3 Jen // Apr 5, 2008 at 1:07 am
Oh I LOVE texting! I text all the time! My neighbor & I will text rather than call each other a lot! My parents & I text quite a bit too! I also text to people’s email addresses! Now if only my husband would text….but he JUST got voicemail on his cell last year…baby steps for him!
Congrats & have fun! BTW…I have a different “ring” for texts so I know it’s not someone calling me…maybe your phone has that too!?
4 Carrie // May 7, 2008 at 2:01 pm
I agree with two suggestions above: 1) set your phone to a different “tone” for a text, then you will avoid the embarrassing confusion of “answering” your text
2) Look into unlimited texting!!! It is really easy to go over those text limits and it is often far more costly to pay an overage then to just have unlimited texting
Have fun learning text, have you discovered iTAP yet?? Texting can be addicting, but for me it’s so much better to just get a quick message from DH then to have to answer calls constantly
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