Fd up txts

CNN.com - SMS boom leads to digit damage - Feb 22, 2006

Apparently 3.8 million people are suffering from RSI because of text messages. Can't quite figure out how this is happeneing. I mean, no one is being forced to text, right? There aren't computer programmers telecommuting via text message, right?

Everyone I know with RSI got it using computers for 8 hours a day, so unless people are sending texts for 8 hours a day, I think there must be something else going on.

Well, it turns out that people actually are spending 8 hours a day texting. 10% of survey respondents say they send 100 texts a day. That is roughly one every 15 minutes for an entire day.

I'm guessing that the people who send 100 texts a day are the same people who talk about what he said to her after that guy came over, and oh my god! I can't believe she just said that!

You know what I mean.

Except each text conversation would go something like this:

Hey

How ru

k

book (the cool kids use book instead of cool, notice how I still use cool)

ru bzy

no

wanna hang

k

when (same person, by the way)

8

where

my haus

book

l8rz

l8rz

I could have condensed this whole thing into three texts, possibly two if both texters are smart.

Hey, I'm bored. Want to hang out later?

Sure, how about 8 at my house? Text if that is a problem.

I get 160 characters for every text and I use those 160 characters to their fullest extent. You can say a lot on 160 characters:
Whoa! Had an amazing day! Managed to get fired, get a new job making 20k more, plus I robbed a bank and donated the “proceeds” to charity. I’m Robin Hood!

It has everything, tells a good story, has some sarcasm (denoted by the quotation marks around proceeds), plus it is punctuated.

Anyway, I think I've gone a little off topic.

PS I still have six characters to play with on that last text!