R U Serious?

It's good to have a skill.  However, I had no idea that there was a GENRE for, as this story defines it, "professional, competition texting," OR a "cell phone text-messaging heap." And while somewhere in my subconscious mind I'm thinking, "Great, another heap I'm NOT at the top of. Jesus, could I FEEL a little more inadequate," this story confirms my theory that as the texters take over, we're going to evolve into three-fingered Sleestacks.

I find it entertaining to receive and to send text messages, but mostly the ones I manage are of the short and sweet variety, like, "What?" and "Haha, I am going to send you a stupid picture now," and "ARE YOU BRINGING THE WINE? NOW???" I find that I get frustrated with the tiny keys and it isn't so much fun for me, and I've more or less bagged doing anything that isn't at least potentially fun. And speed is not a strong suit for me either, since I have a hard-wired inability to revert to Prince language. "U" is not a pronoun, and "r" is not a verb. If I sent a message like that, my friends would be like, "Where is she? And why did you steal her phone?" However, I fully support your right to adjust the spelling however you want, unless I'm grading your paper, sucka, so I'm really NOT a self-righteous pain in the ass about it. I do really need to know (No, I really NEED to know.) how they came up with that phrase for the competition though. So if anyone knows, text me, baby. Kthxbye.

Comments

[thebizofknowledge]

I stumbled across your blog while I was doing some online research. I have to admit, I'm one of those people who has not gotten into text messaging; it just seems too time consuming for us type A's who are always juggling four things anyway!

[Killer B]

I text message people I don't really want to talk to, like my stupid, mostly stoned roommate. I'm starting to switch to using things like "u" and "r" and every time I do it, I die a little bit.