My First Text Message

p>About 9 years ago, I sent my very first texttext last week that played a song and showed a
message. I was fiddling with my phone and saw thatpicture when I opened it up. I've received pictures
I could send a message to my co-worker, so I triedfrom friends whom I haven't seen in years and vice
it and it worked! I thought that was so cool at theversa! Just the other day I sent a video message to
time but also told myself that I would probably barelya friend of mine whom I haven't seen in over 3
use it.years (they live in another state) so that I could
Fast forward 9 years later and if you were to seeshow them my cats.
my bill, you will see that I send/receive more textThere are a few things about texting that most
messages than I use minutes. I've never been big onpeople don't realize:
talking on the phone so over the years I have been-You can send a text to an e-mail address.
able to fully integrate texting into my life.-There are no roaming charges if you text in an area
Now for those that don't understand how I can textthat is not covered. As of today, most cell-phone
so much... besides the standard communicationcompanies do not charge roaming charges for text
between my friends and loved ones, I have alsomessaging. Now this only applies to regular texting-
discovered twitter and Facebook. I only subscribe topicture or video messaging may incur roaming.
fictional characters such as Darth Vader and-It takes less signal to receive a text than it does to
Voldemort on twitter because I enjoy the dailysend one.
chuckle I get from their evil tweets. I also have-You can use text messaging to remind yourself of
Facebook set up to send me texts on variouslittle things... such as grocery items or you can have
updates as well.directions sent to you via text.
Since basic texting was introduced over ten years-You can usually have bank account updates sent to
ago, technology has improved and texting hasyou via text.
several options now. Now you can send sounds,These are just some of the features about texting
pictures, and videos to anyone with a cell-phone orthat make it handy for the average user. It's not for
e-mail. A former co-worker of mine sent me a jokeeveryone but it truly is a great tool for many of us!