what do you use text messaging for?

[meledward23]

I use email for about 80% of my work related conversations and I often regret not using it the other 20% of the time.

Phone? Unless you use a tape recorded what record of the conversation do you have?

Email, Hah, you told me to order that part on the 19th at 9:43AM. Remeber,? No? To bad here is the email. So dont fire me becuase of your screw up....
ETC....

Especially being in the construction field it is useful to have confirmations of go ahead orders.... etc...

 

[getut]

I'm the same way. I use email for everything... it is even my to-do list. At work when someone requests that I fix something, if they stop me in the manufacturing area, I've usually forgotten it by the time I round the corner. But send it to me in email and I don't delete it until I've done it.
Email is also the fastest way to get in touch with me if it is anyone other than my wife. I don't answer my cell phone unless it is my wife calling.

I find cell phones and their services (especially data services) to be way too much of a racket. I REFUSE to pay money out of pocket for a cell phone that is tied to a specific company. If I pay for it, it will be MY phone and I can use it on anyones service I want to. I can't find that anywhere yet so I end up with the ultra cheap free phones from any company I go with. It really burns me when they try to sell camera phones but they try to sucker users by not putting any port on the phone that allows the user to download directly to their PC. They make you buy their data level service so you have to email the pictures to yourself so they can get more money out of you. Another case of screwing the customer to get more money when they could be more concerned about providing a valuable service, instead they artificially cripple it and turn it into a money racket.

 

[SkyPup]

I saw some statistics that teens text messaging costs them (their parents?) over 8 BILLION per year.... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

I have absolutely no need for it @ $0.10 per sentence..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[turnkey4099]

Quote from "Mike"

As with any form of communication, those who find it valuable are the Sender and Receiver. What Observers think of it is, well, irrelevant

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True but that doesn't apply to people with a phone (or even handsfree) stuck in their ear while driving. That is total BS.

Harry K

 

[EastTexFrank]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> teens text messaging costs them (their parents?) over 8 BILLION per year.... </font> )</font>

Yup and since they all use "textese", none of them can spell worth a flip either.

Personally, I have never used TM, it's just far too slow and too much trouble. If I need a record of a conversation, I use email. I must admit, I don't use my cell phone much either but it's the only timepiece I carry since I retired and stopped wearing a watch.

 

[txdon]

What do you use text messaging for?

Evidence.

 

[riptides]

For?
Annoying people and getting out of meetings. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Not in that order of course.

l8r

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[JimMorrissey]

Rob,

They're not using their phone because there's no "paper trail" for them to fall back on and say "I told him last week he needed to get that to me by Thursday". It's classic these days. A lot of times I get the phone call followed-up by an email with eveybody and their brother CCed and BCCed so they can CTA. It's all about CYA and people's general laziness to make a simple phone call along with the possibility that they might get "stuck talking to sombody". It's the American way of life WORK, WORK, WORK and CYA along the way.

 

[Jagmandave]

I have a Treo 600, you can download pics directly from the phone to the PC with it. I run it on Sprint, but it really doesn't care who's service you use. You can also use it for email, and it can be synchronized to your Outlook for calendar and other functions. You can even add a GPS module for them now. Battery life is considerably better than my last phone too. My biggest complaint is that the buttons are so small, I just can't use them with my fat fingers, so I wind up using the stylus that comes with it, but it's a bit if a PITA.