textiquette
January 11, 2007 by Cash
I’m guilty of a lot of things.
Enjoying the occasional adult beverage. Or five. Indulging in online porn. (Strictly for the articles, natch.) Eating a chili-cheese covered Big Bite at 7-11 whilst stumbling home from another night on the town.
But one thing I’m guilty of apparently has the potential to raise the ire of my close friends and soon to be ex-aquaintances:
The mass text message.
Adam Clayton Holland, of Denver’s own alternative weekly Westword, wrote a hilarious article on this very topic for this week’s edition.
As well as being quite enlightening as to the dangers of mass texts, he also pokes fun at one of MY personal annoyances “predictive” or “T9″ messaging:
“56th and Peoria, hot bitches everywhere, and OutKast! Come now!” Or, in predictive text, “56th and renovate, hot Civics dutifully, and Outkast! Bone Onyx!”
Read the whole article now, and have one more thing to feel guilty about all day.
PS: Happy Valentine’s Day. In advance. Just for you.
I know someone with a Kitchen Aide Mixer… It’s real nice.
That’s a funny read. I especially like the name ‘Hot Gary’.
My philosphy is like this. I don’t send holiday mass text messages just like I don’t send email forwards.
I also don’t have a problem sending out a text to all my friends to say “what’s going on?”. However, when I do so, I like to include some kind of plural pronoun in there, so that no one feels like i’m sending out generic personal messages.
good call. i need to stop the blast holiday hellos..