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July 27th, 2010 | No Comments
I remember being a young teen and having a l o n g phone call with a friend. Today, instead of long phone calls, we are looking at text messages. Recently we were on a long weekend and had 2 extra teens with us. One was a friend of Drew’s named Michael. Randy, wanting to make sure that Drew was not being rude, said to Drew when he saw him texting, “Drew, it’s rude to text someone when you have a friend with you.” Drew looked up and said, “Okay Dad, but I’m texting Michael.”
Randy and I looked at each other with astonishment because Michael was sitting right next to Drew and sure enough, he was texting on his phone too! Now, this is not to offer up my opinions on texting but to simply point out, as parents, Randy and I are not “with it.”
In the time it takes one of us to ask, “Did you finish your school?” on our phone’s awkward keypad, one of our kids can text a few friends. “For a teenager to send thousands of text messages a month is not unusual,” said John Johnson, a spokesman for Verizon who has an unlimited texting plan, “because even its highest bundle of free text messages — 5,000 a month — wasn’t enough.”
Randy and I don’t totally get the texting mania that has hit the world today. We don’t text and if you send us one, until one of our kids reads it to us, we won’t see it. But we have found a way to “keep up” and text our kids from time to time. We text from our computers and you can too.
Just open an email and put in your message using the address below, depending on the phone plan of whom you are sending it to:
Verizon: 10digitphonenumber@vtext.com
AT&T: 10digitphonenumber@txt.att.net
Sprint: 10digitphonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile: 10digitphonenumber@tmomail.net
Nextel: 10digitphonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
Cingular: 10digitphonenumber@cingularme.com
Virgin Mobile: 10digitphonenumber@vmobl.com
Alltel: 10digitphonenumber@message.alltel.com
CellularOne: 10digitphonenumber@mobile.celloneusa.com
Omnipoint: 10digitphonenumber@omnipointpcs.com
Qwest: 10digitphonenumber@qwestmp.com
It works GR8. J
I remember being a young teen and having a l o n g phone call with a friend. Today, instead of long phone calls, we are looking at text messages. Recently we were on a long weekend and had 2 extra teens with us. One was a friend of Drew’s named Michael. Randy, wanting to make sure that Drew was not being rude, said to Drew when he saw him texting, “Drew, it’s rude to text someone when you have a friend with you.” Drew looked up and said, “Okay Dad, but I’m texting Michael.”
Randy and I looked at each other with astonishment because Michael was sitting right next to Drew and sure enough, he was texting on his phone too! Now, this is not to offer up my opinions on texting but to simply point out, as parents, Randy and I are not “with it.”
In the time it takes one of us to ask, “Did you finish your school?” on our phone’s awkward keypad, one of our kids can text a few friends. “For a teenager to send thousands of text messages a month is not unusual,” said John Johnson, a spokesman for Verizon who has an unlimited texting plan, “because even its highest bundle of free text messages — 5,000 a month — wasn’t enough.”
Randy and I don’t totally get the texting mania that has hit the world today. We don’t text and if you send us one, until one of our kids reads it to us, we won’t see it. But we have found a way to “keep up” and text our kids from time to time. We text from our computers and you can too.
Just open an email and put in your message using the address below, depending on the phone plan of whom you are sending it to:
Verizon: 10digitphonenumber@vtext.com
AT&T: 10digitphonenumber@txt.att.net
Sprint: 10digitphonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile: 10digitphonenumber@tmomail.net
Nextel: 10digitphonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
Cingular: 10digitphonenumber@cingularme.com
Virgin Mobile: 10digitphonenumber@vmobl.com
Alltel: 10digitphonenumber@message.alltel.com
CellularOne: 10digitphonenumber@mobile.celloneusa.com
Omnipoint: 10digitphonenumber@omnipointpcs.com
Qwest: 10digitphonenumber@qwestmp.com
It works GR8. J
