I Can’t Live Without My Cell Phone

I don’t know what I’d do without my cell phone; I can hardly remember what I did do without a cell phone (besides borrowing other people’s).  The fact is we’re tight, my cell phone and me, we’ve grown up together.  I can’t really remember not having access to a cell of some kind, though I can remember only being able to make calls.  I can remember when it was just me and a number key pad.

Just a less than pocket sized plastic black brick in my parent’s car.  But seriously, cell phones aren’t just for calls anymore .  Actually, I spend more time typing on my phone than I do talking.  It’s just more convenient, and more polite in some cases.  It’s less intrusive to type a message in a crowded room than it is to try and yell over the surrounding ruckus.

It’s convenient, it’s easy, and it’s not as foreign as many people make it out to be.  It doesn’t have to be the generation gap it sometimes seems.  My friends and I find the misconceptions surrounding texting rather hysterical.  The texting vernacular, the language, isn’t quite as prevalent as it seems in pop culture.  Yes, there is short hand , but it’s not that crazy all the time.

Sure, when you get your first cell phone, or you’re a middle schooler on Instant Messenger, it’s there, but to be honest, beyond that, it’s not so bad.  The most common short hand on a cell phone is something like “u”, “k” or  “b/c” (meaning “you”, “okay”, and “because”, in case anyone is still confused) and that’s only because, as we all know, cell screens are only so big, and messages can only be so long.

With full keypads available on many phone models not only is texting language less of a necessity, but so are texting T9 skills.  No need to memorize the numbers and corresponding letters or update an in-phone dictionary.

I’ve grown up with the cell phone and I can’t text to save my life without the keypad, and I still get confused when I see some of those txt messages w/ who knos wat kind o words.  But you can forget capitalization in any of those grammatically correct messages; it’s still supposed to be a quick means of communication. I know I don’t have any patience to wait for my pinky to reach over to the capslock button.