ah, technology
Nov. 11th, 2007 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioThis afternoon my (relatively-new) cell phone made a noise I hadn't heard before. (Kind of disturbing, actually; must try to fix.) When I investigated, I found a text message from a coworker reporting that his wife had just seen for sale (location given) something I had recently said I'd been having trouble finding. This prompted several immediate thoughts:
1. My plan does text messages?
2. How do people learn to type on those things? It took me at least a minute to compose my two-word reply. (Skipping punctuation would have been faster but out of character.) He sent a grammatically-correct paragraph without any cutesy IMisms. Granted, I don't know what device he used to send it.
3. Where did he get my phone number? (I can ask him that one tomorrow.) My land-line number is readily available, but I haven't given my cell number out to coworkers. I tried Googling for my own number and found sites willing to sell it to me but none willing to give it to me.
Heh. I learned some things today, and will learn one more tomorrow when I ask my coworker about #3. Meanwhile, purchase mission accomplished thanks to this message.
1. My plan does text messages?
2. How do people learn to type on those things? It took me at least a minute to compose my two-word reply. (Skipping punctuation would have been faster but out of character.) He sent a grammatically-correct paragraph without any cutesy IMisms. Granted, I don't know what device he used to send it.
3. Where did he get my phone number? (I can ask him that one tomorrow.) My land-line number is readily available, but I haven't given my cell number out to coworkers. I tried Googling for my own number and found sites willing to sell it to me but none willing to give it to me.
Heh. I learned some things today, and will learn one more tomorrow when I ask my coworker about #3. Meanwhile, purchase mission accomplished thanks to this message.
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Date: 2007-11-12 05:16 am (UTC)Also, just because you don't have your plan set up to *send* texts doesn't mean you're incapable of receiving them. I used to get them all the time in Kuwait from the phone company... and in Arabic, which was special.
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Date: 2007-11-12 01:48 pm (UTC)I was apparently able to reply to that text message. I guess I'll find out what this all cost when I get the bill. :-)
I used to get them all the time in Kuwait from the phone company... and in Arabic, which was special.
Phone spam is bad enough. Phone spam you have to pay for is even worse. Phone spam you have to pay for that you can't even read must be really annoying!
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Date: 2007-11-12 02:47 pm (UTC)I didn't have to pay for the ones in Kuwait, because they were from the company. I think they were about specials or something. If I'd opted in to receive messages, I'd have to pay, but I didn't pay for these.
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Date: 2007-11-12 02:50 pm (UTC)