*Phone Calls

"Yowie" wrote in message
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hopitus wrote:
On Apr 3, 7:05 am, Daniel Mahoney wrote:
Text messaging is a whole 'nother matter altogether.
I can see how it can be used 'usefully' for those who are
hearing/speech impaired, or otherwise impaired,
but why do teen-agers sit there and text to each other when they
can just ' talk'? Geez, that makes NO sense to me at all.

It can also be really useful for folks who just rally, raelly hate
to talk on the phone

My employer supplies me with a cell phone, and they don't object to
me using it for personal calls. But they don't want us sending
personal text messages, so I've got a 2nd cell phone, one I pay for
myself, that is just for text messaging. I know it's weird, but I
absolutely hate to talk on the phone.

Dan

If anyone is really interested in why young people are so hot on
texting
instead of phone talk: I refrain from my customary "duh" and point out
that you can sit in class all day and text *silently* (no, that is not
why
he's called "Silent" Bob) behind a screen of your book(s) and yon
"teach" will never have a clue! Maybe when you fail finals. Or not.

Dunno about y'all inthe US, but 'txting' is far cheaper here than making a
call (flag-fall for a phone call is the same for a text message, usually),
and you can send one txt to many people for the same price as sending it
to one person. It can be made into a sorta portable e-mail group, where
you can stay in contact with all of your friends but on *your* schedule.
its a cheap and effecient way of staying in touch when you are on the go.

The 'txt' language developed so that more info could be transmitted using
the 256 character limit per textmessage (or whatever the limit is), plus
it saves on hand movements. Its just another thing young folk take up and
us old people don't understand so much. My mother has only just discovered
e-mail groups even though her daughter (me) has been using them for 15
years or so and has told her all about them.

I don't personally use it, but then again I don't have Ipod either. My
mobile phone is there for when I'm running late (I also use it as my
address book), but I tend to prefer the 'land line' for chatting to
friends. Still, if I was younger and wanted my own phone rather than
having to share my parent's phone line...

I can easily understand its appeal, even if I don't indulge in it myself.

Yowie

I have to laugh at your "Us old people". You're one of the young'uns as far
as I'm concerned.

My mother never got into newsgroups, but she did have e-mail before I did.

Joy

"hopitus" wrote in message
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On Apr 3, 7:05 am, Daniel Mahoney wrote:
Text messaging is a whole 'nother matter altogether.
I can see how it can be used 'usefully' for those who are
hearing/speech
impaired, or otherwise impaired,
but why do teen-agers sit there and text to each other when they can
just '
talk'? Geez, that makes NO sense to me at all.

It can also be really useful for folks who just rally, raelly hate to
talk
on the phone

My employer supplies me with a cell phone, and they don't object to me
using it for personal calls. But they don't want us sending personal text
messages, so I've got a 2nd cell phone, one I pay for myself, that is
just
for text messaging. I know it's weird, but I absolutely hate to talk on
the phone.

Dan

If anyone is really interested in why young people are so hot on
texting
instead of phone talk: I refrain from my customary "duh" and point out
that you can sit in class all day and text *silently* (no, that is not
why
he's called "Silent" Bob) behind a screen of your book(s) and yon
"teach" will never have a clue! Maybe when you fail finals. Or not.
FYI I believe land-lines are heavily victims of phone solicitation. I
dumped
land-line service years ago, like the kids use only cellular, and have
*never*
gotten a solicitation call from robot

I get text "sales pitches" all the time on my cell phone. You haven't?
Just wait, it's coming. BUT, you can put your cell # on the Do Not Call
List, too.

What I don't understand is why the DNC list is only good for 5 years. What,
suddenly in 5 years I'm going to decide I WANT telemarketing calls?!
Ridiculous!

OTOH, my father thought it was "fun" to play with these people. Problem is,
once his mind started going he was playing right into their hands. He
ordered something without even knowing it. Fortunately he was still
cognizant enough to recognize charges he didn't (think he'd) authorized on
his credit card so he disputed the charges and won.

Jill

"Granby" wrote in message
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The young ones I know can't spell worth a crap anyway and this text
messaging isn't helping a bit. If I were a teacher I would be yelling
bloody murder by now.

Nope, they just follow the local school's policy. Here it is to confiscate
the phone and they and their parents can fight the principal's office to get
it back. It is clearly stated that one is not supposed to have cell phones
in class or to use them on the school campus. I'm nicer than some subs, I
give them one warning before I take the phones. I also write down the names
of whoever had the phones in the class room and let the teacher tear a strip
out of them if s/he wishes.

Pam S.

jmcquown wrote:

I get text "sales pitches" all the time on my cell phone. You haven't?
Just wait, it's coming. BUT, you can put your cell # on the Do Not Call
List, too.

My phones (both land-line and cell) already ARE in the "Do Not CAll
Register" - for all the good it does! However, it really frosted me to
find a twenty-cent charge for a RECEIVED text message on my last
cell-phone bill! I've no idea who it was from - appeared to be some
sort of "spread the love" chain letter - but I CERTAINLY have no
intention of PAYING for it! At least Verizon allows me to block text
messaging. It blocks me from sending any, too, of course, but since I
didn't even know I COULD, that's no hardship. I have the naive idea
that telephones exist for MY convenience, not the other way around. (I
still chuckle over the woman in the lavatory stall next to mine, whose
cell-phone rang while she was thus occupied, and she actually ANSWERED it!)


What I don't understand is why the DNC list is only good for 5 years.
What, suddenly in 5 years I'm going to decide I WANT telemarketing
calls?! Ridiculous!

No, but you may no longer have that phone number in five years (although
why your successor would want them either, I've no idea).

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

jmcquown wrote:

I get text "sales pitches" all the time on my cell phone. You haven't?
Just wait, it's coming. BUT, you can put your cell # on the Do Not Call
List, too.

My phones (both land-line and cell) already ARE in the "Do Not CAll
Register" - for all the good it does! However, it really frosted me to
find a twenty-cent charge for a RECEIVED text message on my last
cell-phone bill!

I can't believe you are charged for calls from spammers and telemarketers.
That can't be legal!

Joyce

To email me, remove the triple-X from my user name. ^..^

wrote:
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

jmcquown wrote:

I get text "sales pitches" all the time on my cell phone. You haven't?
Just wait, it's coming. BUT, you can put your cell # on the Do Not Call
List, too.

My phones (both land-line and cell) already ARE in the "Do Not CAll
Register" - for all the good it does! However, it really frosted me to
find a twenty-cent charge for a RECEIVED text message on my last
cell-phone bill!

I can't believe you are charged for calls from spammers and telemarketers.
That can't be legal!

It may depend upon your service provider, but Verizon charges for both
incoming and outgoing text messages - to which the monthly call
allowance does not apply. (Actually, I think most providers charge for
incoming and outgoing phone calls, too, but both are charged against
your monthly allowed minutes, so as long as you don't exceed that
allowance, you don't notice.)

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
jmcquown wrote:

I get text "sales pitches" all the time on my cell phone. You
haven't? Just wait, it's coming. BUT, you can put your cell # on
the Do Not Call List, too.

My phones (both land-line and cell) already ARE in the "Do Not CAll
Register" - for all the good it does! However, it really frosted me
to find a twenty-cent charge for a RECEIVED text message on my last
cell-phone bill!

You guys have to pay to receive messages? Wow.

We don't. Only the sender pays to make the call and/or send the message
here.

Yowie

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
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My phones (both land-line and cell) already ARE in the "Do Not CAll
Register" - for all the good it does! However, it really frosted me to
find a twenty-cent charge for a RECEIVED text message on my last
cell-phone bill! I've no idea who it was from - appeared to be some sort
of "spread the love" chain letter - but I CERTAINLY have no intention of
PAYING for it! At least Verizon allows me to block text messaging. It
blocks me from sending any, too, of course, but since I didn't even know I
COULD, that's no hardship. I have the naive idea that telephones exist
for MY convenience, not the other way around. (I still chuckle over the
woman in the lavatory stall next to mine, whose cell-phone rang while she
was thus occupied, and she actually ANSWERED it!)


Hey, that could have been Ed McMahon calling. Or her kids could have had an
emergency, or her husband's car could have broken down, or her mother may
have fallen and not been able to get up. I've answered my cell in similar
circumstances and been glad I did as once it was a vehicle emergency, once
it was my MIL calling to tell me that her brain tumors (different than the
kind Rob has) were back and once it was a sales pitch. I was quite glad to
flush the toilet while talking to the person. I see the cell phone as a
convenience that you can have fun with.

Pam S.

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

wrote:

I can't believe you are charged for calls from spammers and telemarketers.
That can't be legal!

It may depend upon your service provider, but Verizon charges for both
incoming and outgoing text messages - to which the monthly call
allowance does not apply. (Actually, I think most providers charge for
incoming and outgoing phone calls, too, but both are charged against
your monthly allowed minutes, so as long as you don't exceed that
allowance, you don't notice.)

OK, but if you don't answer the message, then you're not charged, right?
That is, if the phone is turned off and the message goes to voice mail,
then you're only charged if you access the voice mail, I would think.

Otherwise, you would be totally at the mercy of other people calling you.

Actually, what *does* happen to a text message if you don't answer it?
Does it in fact go to voice mail? I have no idea, I've never used texting
on my cell. I'm a certified geezer.

--
Joyce

To email me, remove the triple-X from my user name. ^..^

hopitus wrote:

Actually, what *does* happen to a text message if you don't answer it?
Does it in fact go to voice mail? I have no idea, I've never used texting
on my cell. I'm a certified geezer.

It does not go to voice mail. It stays in messages unless you erase
it.
No voice, no voice mail.....

Yeah, well I was wondering about that...

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Joyce

To email me, remove the triple-X from my user name. ^..^