So I just added texting to my phone plan. I was able to drop my data plan down by $5 which happens to be the exact cost of the 200 text messages a month plan, so it was a zero sum venture. However, if my neighbor and I keep texting the way we did the first day my plan went into effect, I'll blow through 200 in about two weeks.
Why did I succumb, you ask? Well the old "everyone's doing it" reason seems to fit here, or at least a variation of it. Basically, about 3/4 of the people I keep in regular contact with do not have phones with email, so if I want to tell or ask them something pressing but not urgent, I have to call and interrupt them and probably end up talking for a while when neither of us really has that kind of time at that moment. I know, it's the end of civilization that we no longer take the time to talk to each other. Whatever. I haven't handwritten a note to someone outside my household in probably a year and I seem able to maintain close relationships. Or at least digitally close ones.
So now I just have to learn all the shortcuts. The best one I've received so far was from my brother-in-law who, in response to my message letting him know when and where I'd pick him up, replied "K". I'm going to have to go back and bone up on my CDB books.
*with apologies to Rita Golden Gelman
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