The first text message I ever received was sometime in 2001, on my old nokia; the nokia that everyone and their mom owned. Anyway, my phone was upstairs charging, and I started to hear loud strange beeps. I had never heard the phone make that noise before, and was confused. I should state that, at this point in time, I had never even heard of text messaging. I looked at my phone, expecting a missed call, figuring I had accidentally changed the settings. Yet, low and behold, it said I had a message, from my friend Breezy. Yes, Breezy, if you're reading this, you popped my texting cherry. I'm not even really sure what it said, other than a possible: "What's up?" or something of that nature. Unsure of how to proceed I called her to see what this message was exactly, and that was when my eyes were opened to texting.
I didn't exactly jump feet first into this type of communication. Worried about prices of each text message, I think on the plan I had at the time it was something like .40. Slowly my affinity for texting grew, so much so that I'm sending and receiving thousands of text messages a month.
I never thought much about how much I rely on texting as a form of communication until people began to point out that they didn't need to clean out their "full inbox" every day. That brings me to the point of this blog. This blog will be looking at text messaging from all sorts of angles and how it has changed our forms of communication.
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