I have a date.

[luv]

I guess this will be the ****Official TMI Thread****

[The Buddha]

Originally Posted by luv

I'm never going to be successful at dating. I don't play head games, and I'm too impatient to text an entire conversation.

I can't help you with the first part, but I suggest a QWERTY keyboard on your new phone. :-)

[luv]

Originally Posted by The Buddha

I can't help you with the first part, but I suggest a QWERTY keyboard on your new phone. :-)

I keep seeing that when I look at new phones. I should look up exactly what it is.

[Skip Towne]

I don't know how to text. I hope nobody teaches me.

[DaKCMan AP]

Originally Posted by luv

So you get to know them via text? You make all of your plans for your next date via text? How impersonal.

No, I don't sit there and conduct a complete conversation via text. Just vital info. The whole point is if I don't know you well (and I want to) I'll talk to you in person, not over the phone. If I've already been on a date with you I prob know you well enough to call, not text.

[The Buddha]

Originally Posted by luv

I keep seeing that when I look at new phones. I should look up exactly what it is.

where every letter has a key, like a keyboard. No hitting 4 a whole bunch of times just to get the letter I

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by luv

I keep seeing that when I look at new phones. I should look up exactly what it is.

It's a normal keyboard. Look at the top-left six characters on your keyboard. Q-W-E-R-T-Y.

[Katipan]

Originally Posted by luv

I'm never going to be successful at dating. I don't play head games, and I'm too impatient to text an entire conversation.

It's just enough contact to make them crave more.

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Katipan

You strike such tantilizing fear into me that the cold sweat from my back has pooled with the moistness in my nether regions making it quite unclear where my neck starts and my clit begins.

Wow, I've heard about turning a woman into a lesbian, but apparently I've gone a step beyond and turned you into a teenage boy. 'cause you know there's a "clit" and it starts somewhere below the neck, but after that it's just a grope in the dark.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by The Buddha

I can't help you with the first part, but I suggest a QWERTY keyboard on your new phone. :-)

Originally Posted by The Buddha

where every letter has a key, like a keyboard. No hitting 4 a whole bunch of times just to get the letter I

Since you don't text, you get a pass for not realizing this, but many (most? all?) regular keypad phones have an alternative texting mode called T9 or predictive texting instead of the multi-tap technique. You hit the appropriate key (e.g. "4" for the letter I) and your phone will guess which of the three or four possible letters that you really want to use. As you type a second and a third letter for your word, the "guess" for each of the letters gets better and by the time you're done typing the word the prediction is usually pretty accurate. In a word of reasonable length, like the word "length", the predictive capability is damned good. Over time, your usage patterns are taken into account and words that you use a lot will be more likely to be predicted. In shorter words like "on" or "no" which would share the same keystrokes, "66", you may have to select the less common choice after typing in the two keystrokes, but overall it's a very fast and efficient way to generate text messages.

Faster Texting with T9

[luv]

Originally Posted by patteeu

Since you don't text, you get a pass for not realizing this, but many (most? all?) regular keypad phones have an alternative texting mode called T9 or predictive texting instead of the multi-tap technique. You hit the appropriate key (e.g. "4" for the letter I) and your phone will guess which of the three or four possible letters that you really want to use. As you type a second and a third letter for your word, the "guess" for each of the letters gets better and by the time you're done typing the word the prediction is usually pretty accurate. In a word of reasonable length, like the word "length", the predictive capability is damned good. Over time, your usage patterns are taken into account and words that you use a lot will be more likely to be predicted. In shorter words like "on" or "no" which would share the same keystrokes, "66", you may have to select the less common choice after typing in the two keystrokes, but overall it's a very fast and efficient way to generate text messages.

Faster Texting with T9

I've tried that, but I've gotten so used to multi-tap, that it's faster for me that way.

[keg in kc]

patteeu's phone is a either a precursor to skynet or a cylon

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by Katipan

You strike such tantilizing fear into me that the cold sweat from my back has pooled with the moistness in my nether regions making it quite unclear where my neck starts and my clit begins.

Meow, dahling.

[Katipan]

T9 and I don't get along.

I type everything all out. No slang. No shortcuts. But not cuz I'm not lazy, just cuz I think it makes people look like idiots.

[Katipan]

Originally Posted by Claythan

Meow, dahling.

The hair helps.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by luv

I've tried that, but I've gotten so used to multi-tap, that it's faster for me that way.

Once you get used to it, it's really a lot faster. If you can get used to multi-tap, you can get used to T9 and it won't be such a burden to carry on a texting conversation, although I do agree with you that at some point a phone call is so much simpler.